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4 - From Synapse to Behavior: Optogenetic Tools for the Investigation of the Caenorhabditis elegans Nervous System

from Part I - Optogenetics in Model Organisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2017

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Jatin Nagpal
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Krishnarao Appasani
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Optogenetics
From Neuronal Function to Mapping and Disease Biology
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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