Sex-specific pruning of neuronal synapses in Caenorhabditis elegans

Whether and how neurons that are present in both sexes of the same species can differentiate in a sexually dimorphic manner is not well understood. A comparison of the connectomes of the Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite and male nervous systems reveals the existence of sexually dimorphic synapti...

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Main Authors: Oren-Suissa, Meital, Bayer, Emily A., Hobert, Oliver
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4865429/