Running worms: C. elegans self-sorting by electrotaxis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Manière, Xavier ^a   Lebois, Félix ^b   Matic, Ivan ^a   Ladoux, Benoit ^b   Di Meglio, Jean Marc ^b   Hersen, Pascal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTROTAXIS; FITNESS; GENE MUTATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTION; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; VELOCITY; ACCELERATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVALUATION; GENETICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VALIDATION STUDY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

ACCELERATION; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ESCAPE REACTION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; RUNNING;

EID: 79951540668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016637     Document Type: Article

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