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 | Thermotaxis is important for animal survival, but the molecular identities of temperature sensors controlling this behavior have not been determined. |
| Central to thermotaxis are the abilities to sense environmental temperature and to execute the appropriate behavioral response. |
| No regulators of Drosophila thermotaxis have been identified at the molecular level, and little is known of the neural circuitry that controls thermotaxis, aside from a small group of terminal organ neurons involved in larval cold avoidance (L. Liu, 2003; Rosenzweig, 2005). |
| BioMed Central | Full text | The role of the AFD neuron in C. elegansthermotaxis analyzed using femtosecond laser ... (5485 words) |
| One problem with the model of separate cryophilic and thermophilic pathways is that wild-type thermotaxis does not appear to involve thermophilic movement in which worms actively migrate up thermal gradients [2]. |
| A satisfactory model of nematode thermotaxis should be framed in terms of neural functions that operate during normal thermotactic behavior. |
| The role of the AFD neuron in thermotaxis was originally assigned through systematic laser ablation analysis in combination with assays for cryophilic and thermophilic aggregation [3]. |
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