Jacob G Marogi

Nov 30, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Jacob G Marogi |Coleen Murphy |Cameron Myhrvold |Zemer Gitai

AbstractDetecting chemical signals is important for identifying food sources and avoiding harmful agents. Like most animals, C. elegans use olfaction to chemotax towards their main food source, bacteria. However, little is known about the bacterial compounds governing C. elegans attraction to bacteria and the physiological importance of these compounds to bacteria.