Egg-laying in this organism is correlated with locomotion in a relationship apparently mediated by feedback from the HSN motorneurons to interneurons in the head.
Egg-laying in this organism is correlated with locomotion in a relationship apparently mediated by feedback from the HSN motorneurons to interneurons in the head. Its 302 neurons have been shown to form a small-world network, and fire no action potentials. In crowded environments it can enter the dauer larva form rather than the L3 form. The adult hermaphrodite has 959 somatic cells, all of which can be seen with a microscope. Brenner, Horvitz, and Sulston won the 2002 Nobel Prize in medicine for their studies of apoptosis in, FTP, this frequently studied nematode, the first multicellular organism to have its genome sequenced.
Egg-laying in this organism is correlated with locomotion in a relationship apparently mediated by feedback from the HSN motorneurons to interneurons in the head.
Caenorhabditis elegans