Nicotine induces abnormal motor coupling through sensitization of a mechanosensory circuit in Caenorhabditis elegans

• Yuting Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yuting Liu, Leiru Huang, Ruipeng Wang

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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• Leiru Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yuting Liu, Leiru Huang, Ruipeng Wang

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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• Ruipeng Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yuting Liu, Leiru Huang, Ruipeng Wang

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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• Fukang Qi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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• Yiwen Liu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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• Qingyuan Chen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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• Morgane Mialon,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Melis, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR5284, INSERM U1314, Institut NeuroMyoGene—Faculte de Medecine et de Pharmacie, Lyon, France

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• Lili Chen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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• Berangere Pinan-Lucarre,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Melis, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR5284, INSERM U1314, Institut NeuroMyoGene—Faculte de Medecine et de Pharmacie, Lyon, France

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• Shangbang Gao

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sgao@hust.edu.cn

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5431-4628

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