Functional asymmetry in Caenorhabditis elegans taste neurons and its computational role in chemotaxis

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7200, 2008, Pages 114-117

  Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a,d   Thiele, Tod R ^b   Faumont, Serge ^b   Ezcurra, Marina ^c   Lockery, Shawn R ^b   Schafer, William R ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHLORIDE ION; CYCLIC GMP; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM ION; TAX PROTEIN; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1;

ANATOMY; ASYMMETRY; BACTERIUM; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE EXPRESSION; NEMATODE; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; LASER SURGERY; LOCOMOTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 46449089387     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06927     Document Type: Article

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