C. elegans Locomotory Rate Is Modulated by the Environment through a Dopaminergic Pathway and by Experience through a Serotonergic Pathway

@article{Sawin2000CEL,
  title={C. elegans Locomotory Rate Is Modulated by the Environment through a Dopaminergic Pathway and by Experience through a Serotonergic Pathway},
  author={E R Sawin and Rajesh Ranganathan and H. Robert Horvitz},
  journal={Neuron},
  year={2000},
  volume={26},
  pages={619-631}
}
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