Turning away from danger

• Main Authors: Jun Liu, Monika Scholz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-07-01
• Series: eLife
• Subjects: motor sequence generation; feedforward excitation; winner-takes-all; escape response; mutual inhibition
• Online Access: https://elifesciences.org/articles/59910
• ISSN: 2050-084X

The flexible escape behavior exhibited by C. elegans in response to threats relies on a combination of feedback and feedforward circuits.