Macro-level modeling of the response of c. elegans reproduction to chronic heat stress

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  McMullen, Patrick D ^a   Aprison, Erin Z ^b   Winter, Peter B ^a   Amaral, Luis A N ^a   Morimoto, Richard I ^c   Ruvinsky, Ilya ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THERMAL STRESS;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ELEGANS; ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES; HEAT STRESS; LEVEL MODEL; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; SET OF RULES; SIMPLE++; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HEAT STRESS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; REPRODUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; REPRODUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84857496780     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002338     Document Type: Article

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