Changes in Postural Syntax Characterize Sensory Modulation and Natural Variation of C. elegans Locomotion

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Schwarz, Roland F ^a   Branicky, Robyn ^b   Grundy, Laura J ^b   Schafer, William R ^b   Brown, André E X ^c  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS;

ELEGANS; ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HEAVY-TAILED; LOCOMOTOR BEHAVIOR; NATURAL VARIATION; OPTOGENETICS; SEN-SORY MODULATIONS; SHAPE CHANGE; SHAPE TRANSITIONS;

SYNTACTICS;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BODY POSTURE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE FREQUENCY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; OPTOGENETICS;

EID: 84940759595     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004322     Document Type: Article

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