The C. elegans touch response facilitates escape from predacious fungi

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1326-1330

  Maguire, Sean M ^a,b   Clark, Christopher M ^a   Nunnari, John ^a   Pirri, Jennifer K ^a   Alkema, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FUNGUS; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FUNGI; MUTATION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DRECHSLERELLA; FUNGI; NEMATODA;

EID: 80051474297     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.06.063     Document Type: Article

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