{"title":"Male mating behavior.","authors":"Maureen M Barr, L Rene Garcia","doi":"10.1895/wormbook.1.78.1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Caenorhabditis elegans male mating provides an excellent opportunity to determine how sensory perception regulates behavior and motor programs. The male-specific nervous system and muscles are superimposed over the general nervous system and musculature. Genetic screens and genomic approaches have identified male-specific and male-enriched genes as well as non-sex specific molecules specialized for mating sub-behaviors. In this chapter, we discuss the cellular, genetic, and molecular basis for male mating behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":75344,"journal":{"name":"WormBook : the online review of C. elegans biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4780960/pdf/","citationCount":"101","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"WormBook : the online review of C. elegans biology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1895/wormbook.1.78.1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Caenorhabditis elegans male mating provides an excellent opportunity to determine how sensory perception regulates behavior and motor programs. The male-specific nervous system and muscles are superimposed over the general nervous system and musculature. Genetic screens and genomic approaches have identified male-specific and male-enriched genes as well as non-sex specific molecules specialized for mating sub-behaviors. In this chapter, we discuss the cellular, genetic, and molecular basis for male mating behavior.