Biomechanical profiling of Caenorhabditis elegans motility

Genetics

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1015-1021

  Krajacic, Predrag ^a   Shen, Xiaoning ^b   Purohit, Prashant K ^b   Arratia, Paulo ^b   Lamitina, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICAL PROFILING; BIOMECHANICS; BODY BUILD; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GAIT; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOCOMOTION; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; SOFTWARE; SWIMMING; TEMPERATURE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84863874470     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.141176     Document Type: Article

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