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SUBMITTER: Fouad AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5780042 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fouad Anthony D AD Teng Shelly S Mark Julian R JR Liu Alice A Alvarez-Illera Pilar P Ji Hongfei H Du Angelica A Bhirgoo Priya D PD Cornblath Eli E Guan Sihui Asuka SA Fang-Yen Christopher C
eLife 20180123
Coordinated rhythmic movements are ubiquitous in animal behavior. In many organisms, chains of neural oscillators underlie the generation of these rhythms. In <i>C. elegans</i>, locomotor wave generation has been poorly understood; in particular, it is unclear where in the circuit rhythms are generated, and whether there exists more than one such generator. We used optogenetic and ablation experiments to probe the nature of rhythm generation in the locomotor circuit. We found that multiple secti ...[more]