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Nature Methods volume 6, pages 635–636 (2009)Cite this article

A three-dimensional digital atlas allows cell-by-cell navigation of Caenorhabditis elegans.

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Figure 1: One leg of a fanciful journey through the midsection of the C. elegans larva, guided by the digital atlas of Long et al.1.

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