Dynamic switching between escape and avoidance regimes reduces Caenorhabditis elegans exposure to noxious heat

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Schild, Lisa C ^a   Glauser, Dominique A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; VANILLOID RECEPTOR;

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HEATING; MUTATION; NEMATODE; SOIL FAUNA; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXPOSURE; GENE MUTATION; HEAT; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; THERMOREGULATION; VELOCITY; WORM;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84881344572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3198     Document Type: Article

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