Keeping it regular with protons

Laura M. Prolo and Miriam B. Goodman
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Laura M. Prolo: Laura M. Prolo is in the Neurosciences Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA. mbgoodman@stanford.edu
Miriam B. Goodman: Laura M. Prolo is in the Neurosciences Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA. mbgoodman@stanford.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 452, issue 7183, 35-36

Abstract: Muscle coordination is mostly governed by motor programs built into the nervous system. But one program — the defecation cycle in a worm — has a mechanism that avoids nerves completely and uses protons as signals.

Date: 2008
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