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Monoaminergic Orchestration of Motor Programs in a Complex C. elegans Behavior
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
Monoamines provide chemical codes of behavioral states. However, the neural mechanisms of monoaminergic orchestration of behavior are poorly understood. Touch elicits an escape response in Caenorhabditis elegans where the ...
Synchronous Symmetry Breaking in Neurons with Different Neurite Counts
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
As neurons develop, several immature processes (i.e., neurites) grow out of the cell body. Over time, each neuron breaks symmetry when only one of its neurites grows much longer than the rest, becoming an axon. This symmetry ...
3D Multicolor Super-Resolution Imaging Offers Improved Accuracy in Neuron Tracing
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
The connectivity among neurons holds the key to understanding brain function. Mapping neural connectivity in brain circuits requires imaging techniques with high spatial resolution to facilitate neuron tracing and high ...
Controlling Airborne Cues to Study Small Animal Navigation
(Nature Publishing Group, 2012)
Small animals such as nematodes and insects analyze airborne chemical cues to infer the direction of favorable and noxious locations. In these animals, the study of navigational behavior evoked by airborne cues has been ...
Bright and Fast Multicoloured Voltage Reporters via Electrochromic FRET
(Nature Publishing Group, 2014)
Genetically encoded fluorescent reporters of membrane potential promise to reveal aspects of neural function not detectable by other means. We present a palette of multicoloured brightly fluorescent genetically encoded ...