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Neuronal perception of the social environment generates an inherited memory that controls the development and generation time of C. elegans

Marcos F Perez, Mehrnaz Shamalnasab, Alejandro Mata-Cabana, Simona Della Valle, María Olmedo, Mirko Francesconi, and Ben Lehner (2021)

Current Biology.

An old and controversial question in biology is whether information perceived by the nervous system of an animal can “cross the Weismann barrier” to alter the phenotypes and fitness of their progeny. Here, we show that such intergenerational transmission of sensory information occurs in the model organism, C. elegans, with a major effect on fitness. Specifically, that perception of social pheromones by chemosensory neurons controls the post-embryonic timing of the development of one tissue, the germline, relative to others in the progeny of an animal. Neuronal perception of the social environment thus intergenerationally controls the generation time of this animal.

developmental timing, generation time, germline, intergenerational epigentics, pheromones, Weismann barrier

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