Optical silencing of body wall muscles induces pumping inhibition in Caenorhabditis elegans

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About the Authors

Megumi Takahashi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Biological Science, Nagoya University Graduate School of Science Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

Shin Takagi

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Biological Science, Nagoya University Graduate School of Science Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Neurons
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Biological locomotion
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Signal inhibition
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