The structure of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
@article{White1986TheSO, title={The structure of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.}, author={J. White and E. Southgate and J. N. Thomson and S. Brenner}, journal={Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences}, year={1986}, volume={314 1165}, pages={ 1-340 } }
The structure and connectivity of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been deduced from reconstructions of electron micrographs of serial sections. The hermaphrodite nervous system has a total complement of 302 neurons, which are arranged in an essentially invariant structure. Neurons with similar morphologies and connectivities have been grouped together into classes; there are 118 such classes. Neurons have simple morphologies with few, if any, branches. Processes… Expand
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