Animal locomotion: nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

AofSci_v2

Time lapse images of the nematode C. elegans swimming in a 5ml drop (false colors).
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Combined

Automated image analysis of C. elegans – (left: raw/right: segmentation). Raw data obtained from Berri et al. HFSP J. 3: 186–193 (2009).

Swim_Example

Swimming C. elegans illustrating tail tip and centroid trajectories

Elegans_velvort

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) of swimming C. elegans (left: velocity field / right: vorticity field). Note that the nematode is transparent in experiments – click picture for animation

ECG_elegans

“Electro-cardiogram” (ECG) of swimming C. elegans in a 2ml drop (left: raw image/ right: temporal signal of kinetic energy)