Sexual attraction: sex-specific wiring of neural circuitry.

Curr Biol

Section of Neurobiology, Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0357, USA.

Published: November 2012

Two recent studies describe mechanisms by which sexually dimorphic responses to pheromones in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans are driven by differences in the balance of neural circuits that control attraction and repulsion behaviors.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4085748PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.10.003DOI Listing

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