Article
Regulation of a periodic motor program in C. elegans.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 1 Apr 1994
Liu D W, Thomas J H
Abstract excerpt
A three-part motor program mediates a defecation every 45 sec in well-fed wild-type Caenorhabditis elegans. Individual worms maintain this 45 sec rhythm with an SD of about 3 sec. We present evidence that the defecation cycle is controlled by an endogenous clock, most likely a neuronal pattern generator. The phase of the behavioral rhythm can be reset like pattern generators in other animals. The rhythm was reset...
Topics
- Activity Cycles
- Animals
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Defecation
- Digestive System
- Digestive System Physiological Phenomena
- Eating
- Food Deprivation
- Motor Neurons
- Muscle, Smooth
- Mutation