Bidirectional thermotaxis in Caenorhabditis elegans is mediated by distinct sensorimotor strategies driven by the AFD thermosensory neurons

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

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2776-2781

  Luo, Linjiao ^a,b   Cook, Nathan ^c   Venkatachalam, Vivek ^b   Martinez Velazquez, Luis A ^c   Zhang, Xiaodong ^d   Calvo, Ana C ^c   Hawk, Josh ^c   MacInnis, Bronwyn L ^e   Frank, Michelle ^b   Ng, Jia Hong Ray ^b   Klein, Mason ^b   Gershow, Marc ^b   Hammarlund, Marc ^c   Goodman, Miriam B ^e   Colón Ramos, Daniel A ^c   Zhang, Yun ^d   Samuel, Aravinthan D T ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSENSING;

EID: 84894363844     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315205111     Document Type: Article

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