Recordings of Caenorhabditis elegans locomotor behaviour following targeted ablation of single motorneurons

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Volumn 4, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Chew, Yee Lian ^a   Walker, Denise S ^a   Towlson, Emma K ^b   Vértes, Petra E ^c   Yan, Gang ^b,d   Barabási, Albert László ^b,e,f,g   Schafer, William R ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR NEURONS;

EID: 85031794260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20524463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.156     Document Type: Article

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