More than 30 years ago a team of scientists painstakingly traced the connections among each of the 302 nerve cells in the hermaphrodite Caenorhabditis elegans worm. But it took until now for ...

I was fascinated by the idea of using genetics to probe the neural basis of behaviour. And a unique resource drew me to the tiny transparent worm Caenorhabditis elegans: a wiring diagram of the ...

they describe the first complete neural wiring diagram, or connectome, for an organism, the nematode roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans. By conceptually simplifying the cells of the worm into a ...