Nuances in <em>C. elegans</em> Crawling Behavior (IMAGE)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

Nuances in <em>C. elegans</em> Crawling Behavior

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To the naked eye, the nematode C. elegans appears to move forward, backward and turn. With a new method of modeling dynamical systems, researchers from the Biological Physics Theory Unit and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have revealed subtle nuances in each of these behavioral states.

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