How Pseudomonus avoidance is encoded for four generations in C. elegans (IMAGE)

Princeton University

How Pseudomonus avoidance is encoded for four generations in C. elegans

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Princeton researchers Rachel Kaletsky, Rebecca Moore, Coleen Murphy and colleagues have discovered that the microscopic roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans recognizes a small RNA called P11, made by pathogenic P. aeruginosa, and uses that RNA to convey learned avoidance of the bacterium to offspring.

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Illustration by Rachel Kaletsky, Rebecca Moore and Coleen Murphy

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