Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

C. elegans collectively forms dynamical networks

  • Takuma Sugi,
  • Hiroshi Ito,
  • Masaki Nishimura,
  • Ken H. Nagai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08537-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Understanding collective motions in a group of interacting animal is a challenge owing to the lack of control over, for example, real fish schools. Here, the authors study the aggregation of C. elegans at controllable conditions and reproduce the experimental observations using a minimal model.