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Maze exploration and learning in C. elegans.
Lab on a chip - 1 Feb 2007
Qin Jianhua, Wheeler Aaron R
Abstract excerpt
The soil dwelling nematode, Caenorhabditis (C.) elegans, is a popular model system for studying behavioral plasticity. Noticeably absent from the C. elegans literature, however, are studies evaluating worm behavior in mazes. Here, we report the use of microfluidic mazes to investigate exploration and learning behaviors in wild-type C. elegans, as well as in the dopamine-poor mutant, cat-2. The key research...
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