Quiescent behavior in response to bacterial infection in C. elegans.

2025/01/01 by D G Moses, C. Needham, Hilary Kay DeBardeleben
Medicine · Psychology · #Dermatology and Skin Diseases #Primate Behavior and Ecology

paper · doi:10.17912/micropub.biology.001412

openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/03/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11

Abstract

, a bacterial pathogen. This quiescence is increased with increasing severity of the infection. Furthermore, we show this behavior is distinct from stress-induced sleep due to a lack of feeding quiescence and regulation by sleep-inducing neurons.

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