Dissecting a circuit for olfactory behaviour in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7166, 2007, Pages 63-70

  Chalasani, Sreekanth H ^a   Chronis, Nikos ^a   Tsunozaki, Makoto ^a   Gray, Jesse M ^a   Ramot, Daniel ^b   Goodman, Miriam B ^b   Bargmann, Cornelia I ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; INHIBITION; NEMATODE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ODOR; OLFACTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INTERNEURON; MUTATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 35948982603     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06292     Document Type: Article

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