Controlling interneuron activity in Caenorhabditis elegans to evoke chemotactic behaviour

Askin Kocabas (), Ching-Han Shen, Zengcai V. Guo and Sharad Ramanathan ()
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Askin Kocabas: FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University
Ching-Han Shen: FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University
Zengcai V. Guo: Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Sharad Ramanathan: FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University

Nature, 2012, vol. 490, issue 7419, 273-277

Abstract: Optogenetic neuronal control of freely moving Caenorhabditis elegans to drive the animals up virtual ‘optical’ gradients combined with real-time tracking demonstrates that a single pair of interneurons is technically sufficient to determine such guided locomotion.

Date: 2012
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