Why do sleeping nematodes adopt a hockey-stick-like posture?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Tramm, Nora ^a   Oppenheimer, Naomi ^a   Nagy, Stanislav ^b   Efrati, Efi ^a   Biron, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DYNAMICS; HOCKEY STICK LIKE POSTURE; MOLTING; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; SLEEP; ANIMAL; LOCOMOTION; NEMATODE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LOCOMOTION; NEMATODA; POSTURE; SLEEP;

EID: 84904263413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101162     Document Type: Article

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