Systematic profiling of Caenorhabditis elegans locomotive behaviors reveals additional components in G-protein Gαq signaling

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 11940-11945

  Yu, Hui ^a   Aleman Meza, Boanerges ^a   Gharib, Shahla ^b   Labocha, Marta K ^a   Cronin, Christopher J ^b   Sternberg, Paul W ^b   Zhong, Weiwei ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene Network; High Content Screening; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN GAMMA SUBUNIT; PHOSPHOLIPASE C;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPISTASIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

GENE NETWORK; HIGH-CONTENT SCREENING; LOCOMOTION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GQ-G11; LOCOMOTION; NEURONS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84880375093     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310468110     Document Type: Article

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