WormBase Tree Display for WBProcess: WBbiopr:00000055
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| WBbiopr:00000055 | Public_name | Feeding | |||
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| Summary | Identification of and response to a potential food source is a life-critical process. C. elegans has proved to be a model organism for studying the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in seeking a food source and discriminating its value. These studies have shown that C. elegans is capable of forming a memory of particular foods and is capable of modifying its eating behavior upon subsequent exposure to the familiar food. In addition, research has shown that this modification in behavior is mediated by extrinsic, such as C. elegans pheromone and bacterial molecules, and intrinsic chemical cues, such as serotonin levels. In C. elegans feeding can be observed by watching pharyngeal pumping, which is composed of a posterior-directed contraction of the grinder followed by an anterior-directed relaxation. | ||||
| Related_topic | Specialisation_of | WBbiopr:00000048 | |||
| Involved_entity | Gene | WBGene00006434 | Paper_evidence | WBPaper00046411 | |
| WBGene00001803 | Paper_evidence | WBPaper00046411 | |||
| WBGene00001804 | Paper_evidence | WBPaper00046411 | |||
| Interaction | WBInteraction000525047 | ||||
| WBInteraction000525048 | |||||
| WBInteraction000525049 | |||||
| WBInteraction000525050 | |||||
| Anatomy_term | WBbt:0003645 | Paper_evidence | WBPaper00046411 | ||
| WBbt:0005413 | Paper_evidence | WBPaper00026981 | |||
| WBbt:0005440 | Paper_evidence | WBPaper00046411 | |||
| WBbt:0005660 | Paper_evidence | WBPaper00041969 | |||
| Molecule | WBMol:00001695 | Paper_evidence | WBPaper00046411 | ||
| Associated_with | Phenotype (24) | ||||
| GO_term | GO:0007631 | ||||
| Reference | WBPaper00026981 | ||||
| WBPaper00041969 | |||||
| WBPaper00045312 | |||||
| WBPaper00046411 |
