Article
Mutations affecting axonal growth and guidance of motor neurons and mechanosensory neurons in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Neuroscience research. Supplement : the official journal of the Japan Neuroscience Society - 1 Jan 1990
Siddiqui S S
Abstract excerpt
In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, each of its 302 individual neurons is an identified neuron. We have screened more than 100 mutations affecting locomotion in C. elegans immunocytochemically, using monoclonal antibodies that recognize specific subsets of neurons. Mutations in 25 genes affect the axonal outgrowth and guidance of a set of 6 mechanosensory receptor neurons (ALML, ALMR, AVM, PVM, PLML and...
Topics
- Animals
- Axons
- Caenorhabditis
- Locomotion
- Mechanoreceptors
- Motor Activity
- Motor Neurons
- Mutation
- Neural Pathways
- Neurons, Afferent
- Phenotype
