title: Sexual attraction: sex-specific wiring of neural circuitry.
abstract: Two recent studies describe mechanisms by which sexually dimorphic responses to pheromones in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans are driven by differences in the balance of neural circuits that control attraction and repulsion behaviors.
authors.affiliation: Section of Neurobiology, Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0357, USA.
authors.forename: E Paxon
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Frady
authors.forename: Christopher R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Palmer
authors.forename: William B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Kristan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000502:physiology*; D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D063132:Connectome; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D012724:Sex Attractants / Q000502:physiology*; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D012724:Sex Attractants