Long-tail behavior in locomotion of Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 213-222

  Ohkubo, Jun ^a   Yoshida, Kazushi ^a   Iino, Yuichi ^a   Masuda, Naoki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Multiplicative noise; Nematode; Power law; Random walk

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CHEMOTAXIS; LOCOMOTION; MODEL; NEMATODE; NUMERICAL METHOD; RANDOM WALK METHOD;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TAIL;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 77956308469     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.08.020     Document Type: Article

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