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Analysis of a sensory neural circuit in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans reveals that its wiring is sex-specific, and arises through the elimination of connections that are originally formed in both sexes. See Article p.206

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  1. Douglas S. Portman is in the Department of Biomedical Genetics and the Center for Neural Development and Disease, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14642, USA.,

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Portman, D. Wired for sex. Nature 533, 188–189 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17898

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