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Figure 4

From: An automated system for measuring parameters of nematode sinusoidal movement

Figure 4

Variability of wild-type movement. For each metric, the aggregate statistics are shown along with individual days' experiments. Each daily group is designated by date. The 'other' group comprises 25 individuals that were tested on 16 different days in groups of 1–3. For each metric, a bar graph of the means is displayed (A, C, E, G, I, K) as well as histograms (B, D, F, H, J, L). For bar charts: Blue, mean; green, forward; red, backwards. For histograms: Blue, all 48 N2 animals (n = 48); Green, 2-18-03 dataset (n = 5); Red, 7-18-03 dataset (n = 8); light blue, 9-05-03 dataset (n = 4); magenta, 10-17-03 dataset (n = 6); yellow, other dataset (n = 25). n = number of individuals tested; n is the same for all panels. A. Mean velocity. B. Velocity histogram. C. Mean centroid velocity. D. Centroid velocity histogram. E. Mean frequency at bend 5. F. Frequency at bend 5 histogram. G. Mean flex at bend 5. H. Flex at bend 5 histogram. I. Mean length-normalized track amplitude. J. Length- normalized track amplitude histogram. K. Mean length-normalized wavelength. L. Length-normalized wavelength histogram. Each histogram curve represents the distribution of 632 to 1485 individual measurements per worm.

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