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Quantifying The Locomotion Of C. Elegans And Their Response To Photo Stimulation, Ian Seddon
Quantifying The Locomotion Of C. Elegans And Their Response To Photo Stimulation, Ian Seddon
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Identifying the function of different locomotive genes in model organisms is crucial for genetics research. One popular approach is to analyze the behavior and motion of animals in hope of understanding subtle genetic or neural mechanisms. The nematode C. elegans has emerged as an increasingly popular organism for the study of sensory systems, specifically photo transduction, due to the fact it is still photosensitive without having eyes. Light stimulus has been shown to elicit evasive locomotive behavior in C. elegans, however little has been done to quantify this movement. Modeling the worm motion as a static sine wave, we used …