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Rice University

Worms

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Researchers at Rice University looked at 13 points of moving mutant worms when measuring 10 parameters -- amplitude, flex, frequency, velocity and wavelength, both forward and backward -- to learn about the gene networks that control their locomotion.

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Credit: Zhong Lab/Rice University

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