Caenorhabditis elegans behavioral genetics: Where are the knobs?

BMC Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Avery, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; NEUROPEPTIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77954035435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-69     Document Type: Article

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