Genes & Development
Mother’s age shapes offspring avoidance behavior in worms
Experiments in worms linked older mothers to offspring with weaker nerve-cell responses and less avoidance of a chemical social signal.Experiments in worms linked older mothers to offspring with weaker nerve-cell responses and less avoidance of a chemical social signal.
Worm studyMechanisms
Who was studiedCaenorhabditis elegans offspring, against offspring of young mothers
What changedOffspring of older mothers avoided the social pheromone less than offspring of young mothers
The catchAvoidance of cues other than the tested social pheromone was not measured