The neuroethology of C. elegans escape

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 187-193

  Pirri, Jennifer K ^a   Alkema, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; ETHOLOGY; FORAGING; GENOTYPE; HEAD MOVEMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTONEURON; MOTOR COORDINATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROETHOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPECIES HABITAT; SURVIVAL; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESCAPE REACTION; ETHOLOGY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROLOGY;

EID: 84857306593     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.12.007     Document Type: Review

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