Browsing Department of Biology by Author "Omura, Daniel Togo"

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C. elegans integrates food, stress, and hunger signals to coordinate motor activity

Omura, Daniel Togo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)

In the presence of a bacterial food source, the small nematode C. elegans greatly reduces its rate of locomotion. While mechanical agitation greatly stimulates the locomotion of well-fed animals on bacteria, it does not ...