Regulation of two motor patterns enables the gradual adjustment of locomotion strategy in caenorhabditis elegans

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue MAY2016, 2016, Pages

  Hums, Ingrid ^a   Riedl, Julia ^a   Mende, Fanny ^a   Kato, Saul ^a   Kaplan, Harris S ^a   Latham, Richard ^a   Sonntag, Michael ^a,b   Traunmüller, Lisa ^a,c   Zimmer, Manuel ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; DIMETICONE; DNA FRAGMENT; NEUROPEPTIDE; RECOMBINASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMOTAXIS; CONNECTOME; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FLEXIBLE TURNING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTERNEURON; JOINT FUNCTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LOCOMOTION; LOCOMOTION SPEED; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROPRIOCEPTION; REGULAR UNDULATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STEREOTYPY; TURNING MODE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NEUROPEPTIDES;

EID: 84971668317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.14116     Document Type: Article

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