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SUBMITTER: Wang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7338056 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Yuan Y Zhang Xiaoqian X Xin Qi Q Hung Wesley W Florman Jeremy J Huo Jing J Xu Tianqi T Xie Yu Y Alkema Mark J MJ Zhen Mei M Wen Quan Q
eLife 20200605
Complex animal behaviors arise from a flexible combination of stereotyped motor primitives. Here we use the escape responses of the nematode <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> to study how a nervous system dynamically explores the action space. The initiation of the escape responses is predictable: the animal moves away from a potential threat, a mechanical or thermal stimulus. But the motor sequence and the timing that follow are variable. We report that a feedforward excitation between neurons enco ...[more]