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Initiation of male sperm-transfer behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans requires input from the ventral nerve cord

Gary Schindelman, Allyson J Whittaker, Jian Y Thum, Shahla Gharib and Paul W Sternberg*

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

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BMC Biology 2006, 4:26 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-4-26

Published: 15 August 2006

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Initiation. The initiation step of sperm transfer

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Release and continued transfer. The release and continued transfer steps of sperm transfer

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Cessation. The cessation step of sperm transfer

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Neuronal and non-neuronal expression of UNC-18 are necessary for sperm transfer.

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