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Temperature and food mediate long-term thermotactic behavioral plasticity by association-independent mechanisms in C. elegans.
The Journal of experimental biology - 1 Nov 2007
Chi Cynthia A, Clark Damon A, Lee Stella, Biron David, Luo Linjiao, Gabel Christopher V, Brown Jeffrey, Sengupta Piali, Samuel Aravinthan D T
Abstract excerpt
Thermotactic behavior in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans exhibits long-term plasticity. On a spatial thermal gradient, C. elegans tracks isotherms near a remembered set-point (T(S)) corresponding to its previous cultivation temperature. When navigating at temperatures above its set-point (T>T(S)), C. elegans crawls down spatial thermal gradients towards the T(S) in what is called cryophilic movement. The T(S)...
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