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Forces applied during classical touch assays for Caenorhabditis elegans

For decades, Caenorhabditis elegans roundworms have been used to study the sense of touch, and this work has been facilitated by a simple behavioral assay for touch sensation. To perform this classical assay, an experimenter uses an eyebrow hair to gently touch a moving worm and observes whether or...

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Autores principales: Nekimken, Adam L., Mazzochette, Eileen A., Goodman, Miriam B., Pruitt, Beth L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28542494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178080