Volume 36, No 4, Apr 2026

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 36 Issue 4, April 2026: 243-244

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Eyeless light sensing promotes thermotolerance

Roger Pocock^*

Development and Stem Cells Program, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Correspondence: Roger Pocock(roger.pocock@monash.edu)

In transient environments, organisms employ homeostatic mechanisms to enhance survival and species propagation. A recent study in Cell Research revealed that light perception by the eyeless organism Caenorhabditis elegans coordinates independent serotonin-mediated mechanisms to promote survival, reproductive timing and species fitness strategies to withstand thermal stress.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-026-01228-6

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