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<i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> Exhibits Positive Gravitaxis

2019-06-03

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Whether or not the micro swimmer Caenorhabditis elegans senses and respond to gravity is unknown. We find that C. elegans aligns its swimming direction with that of the gravity vector (positive gravitaxis). When placed in an aqueous solution that is denser than the animals, they still orient downwards, indicating that non-uniform mass distribution and/or hydrodynamic effects are not responsible for animal’s down...

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Literature Corpus work: 011dbff2-b1b0-5748-9ee0-e207b09496e8
DOI: 10.1101/658229

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