title: Neuroecology: tuning foraging strategies to environmental variability.
abstract: Caenorhabditis elegans has been shown to measure variability in environmental food density, using the information to fine-tune foraging strategies; a compact neural circuit has been identified that responds to large fluctuations in food-related cues and uses dopamine to encode the amount of recently encountered variability.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, McGill University, Stewart Biology Building W5/11, 1205 av Dr Penfield, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada. Electronic address: michael.hendricks@mcgill.ca.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hendricks
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D002490:Central Nervous System; D017753:Ecosystem; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans