Neuroecology: Tuning Foraging Strategies to Environmental Variability

作者:Hendricks Michael*
来源:Current Biology, 2015, 25(12): R498-R500.
DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.042

摘要

Caenorhabditis elegans has been shown to measure variability in environmental food density, using the information to fine-tune foraging strategies; a compact neural circuit has been identified that responds to large fluctuations in food-related cues and uses dopamine to encode the amount of recently encountered variability.

  • 出版日期2015-6-15
  • 单位McGill