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Published online 31 October 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021028-8
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Anxious worms stick together
Finding might help treat stress-related ailments.
Researchers have found a set of genes that control whether feeding worms clump together or go it alone1,2.
The genes are switched on in nerve cells known to sense stressful situations.
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