A steep thermal gradient thermotaxis assay for the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 141-144

  Cassata, Giuseppe ^a,b   Kuhn, Franziska ^b   Witmer, Andreas ^c   Kirchhofer, Roland ^a   Bürglin, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Thermotaxis; Thermotaxis index

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AGAR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0033809363     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1526-968X(200008)27:4<141::AID-GENE20>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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