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Sensing the long and the short of it

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How do sensory systems encode prolonged stimuli? A study reveals molecular and circuit mechanisms by which C. elegans interprets oxygen concentration to produce both transient and long-lasting behaviors.

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Figure 1: Tonic O2 sensing circuitry of C. elegans.

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  1. Richard Benton is at the Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,

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