Nematode locomotion: Dissecting the neuronal-environmental loop

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 25, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-106

  Cohen, Netta ^a   Sanders, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SWIMMING; VENTRAL ROOT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENVIRONMENT; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS;

EID: 84891803861     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2013.12.003     Document Type: Review

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