Durbin 1987

Studies on the development and organisation of the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans

Richard Michael Durbin, PhD thesis

Published: April 1987

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Summary

• Established a computer database of the synaptic connectivity data obtained by White and colleagues.

• For each pair of neurons, it stores the number of gap junctions between them and the number of chemical synapses in each direction.

• For the NSH series, there is a measure of adjacency or degree of mutual contact between each pair of processes.