C. elegans: a sensible model for sensory biology

Abstract From Sydney Brenner’s backyard to hundreds of labs across the globe, inspiring six Nobel Prize winners along the way, Caenorhabditis elegans research has come far in the past half century. The journey is not over. The virtues of C. elegans research are numerous and have been recounted extensively. Here, we focus on the remarkable progress made in sensory neurobiology research in C. elegans. This nematode continues to amaze researchers as we are still adding new discoveries to the already rich repertoire of sensory capabilities of this deceptively simple animal. Worms possess the sense of taste, smell, touch, light, temperature and proprioception, each of which is being studied in genetic, molecular, cellular and systems-level detail. This impressive organism can even detect less commonly recognized sensory cues such as magnetic fields and humidity.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Journal of neurogenetics

• Publication date

  2020-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/01677063.2020.1823386PMID 33191820PMCID PMC7856205
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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