Optogenetic actuation, inhibition, modulation and readout for neuronal networks generating behavior in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Optogenetics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 61-78

  De Bono, Mario ^a   Schafer, William R ^a   Gottschalk, Alexander ^b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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