High-throughput behavioral analysis in C. elegans

Nature Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 592-602

  Swierczek, Nicholas A ^a   Giles, Andrew C ^b,c   Rankin, Catharine H ^b,c   Kerr, Rex A ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC SCREENING; HABITUATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMOTAXIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 79959854438     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1625     Document Type: Article

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