Caltech and UCSD scientists establish leech as model for study of reproductive behaviour

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 07:14 in Physics & Chemistry

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have discovered that injecting a simple hormone into leeches creates a novel way to study how hormones and the nervous system work together to produce species-specific reproductive behaviour...

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