Navigational decision making in Drosophila thermotaxis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4261-4272

  Luo, Linjiao ^a   Gershow, Marc ^a   Rosenzweig, Mark ^b   Kang, KyeongJin ^b   Fang Yen, Christopher ^a   Garrity, Paul A ^b   Samuel, Aravinthan D T ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COLD SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LARVA; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMOTACTIC BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HEAD; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT; ORGAN SIZE; ORIENTATION; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77949781482     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4090-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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