Publications

Cohen M., Reale V., Olofsson B., Knights A., Evans P., de Bono M. (2009).
Coordinated Regulation of Foraging and Metabolism in C. elegans by RFamide Neuropeptide Signaling.
Cell Metabolism (in press)

Persson A.*, Gross E.*, Laurent P., Busch K.E., Bretes H., de Bono M. (* equal contribution) (2009).
Natural variation in a neural globin tunes oxygen sensing in wild Caenorhabditis elegans.
Nature, advance online publication, 04 March 2009 (doi:10.1038/nature07820)

Bretscher A.J., Busch K.E., de Bono M. (2008).
A carbon dioxide avoidance behavior is integrated with responses to ambient oxygen and food in C. elegans .
PNAS 105, 8044-8049.

Rogers C.*, Persson A.*, Cheung B.*, de Bono M. (* equal contribution) (2006).
Behavioral motifs and neural pathways coordinating O2 responses and aggregation in C. elegans .
Curr Biol 16, 649-59.

Cheung B.H.H.*, Cohen M.*, Rogers C., Albayram O., de Bono M. (* equal contribution) (2005).
Experience dependent modulation of C. elegans behaviour by ambient oxygen.
Curr Biol 15, 905-917.

Cheung B.H.H., Arellano-Carbajal F., Rybicki I., de Bono M. (2004).
Soluble guanylate cyclases act in neurons exposed to the body fluid to promote C. elegans aggregation behavior.
Curr Biol 14, 1105-1111.

Rogers C.*, Reale V.*, Kim K., Chatwin H., Li C., Evans P., de Bono M. (* equal contribution) (2003).
Inhibition of Caenorhabditis elegans social feeding by FMRFamide-related peptide activation of NPR-1.
Nat Neurosci 6, 1178-1185.

Coates J.C., de Bono M. (2002).
Antagonistic pathways in neurons exposed to body fluid regulate social feeding in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Nature 419, 925-929.

de Bono M., Tobin D.M., Davis M.W., Avery L., Bargmann C.I. (2002).
Social feeding in Caenorhabditis elegans is induced by neurons that detect aversive stimuli.
Nature 419, 899-903.

de Bono M., Bargmann C.I. (1998).
Natural variation in a neuropeptide Y receptor homolog modifies social behavior and food response in C. elegans.
Cell 94, 679-689

Reviews by Mario de Bono

de Bono M., Maricq A.V. (2005).
Neuronal substrates of complex behaviors in C. elegans.
Annu Rev Neurosci. 28, 451-501.

de Bono M. (2003).
Molecular approaches to aggregation behavior and social attachment.
J Neurobiol 54, 78-92.

Reviews of our work:

Riedl C.A.L., Sokolowski M.B. (2004).
Behavioral genetics: guanylyl cyclase prompts worms to party.
Curr Biol 14, R657-R658.

Potter C.J., and Luo, L. (2003).
Food for thought: a receptor finds its ligand.
Nat Neurosci 6, 1119-1120.

Sokolowski, M.B. (2002).
Neurobiology: social eating for stress.
Nature 419, 893-894.

Sokolowski, M.B. (1998).
Genes for normal behavioral variation: recent clues from flies and worms.
Neuron 21, 463-466.

Thomas, J.H. (1998).
Social life and the single nucleotide: foraging behavior in C. elegans.
Cell 94, 549-550.