Nuances in C. Elegans Crawling Behavior
21 Jan 2019
Nicoletta Lanese
To the naked eye, the nematode C. elgeans 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.
Credit:
António Carlos da Costa, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam