Optogenetic analysis of Ca++ transients in Caenorhabditis elegans muscle cells during forward and reverse locomotion
Manjarrez, J. R.; Shaw, M.; Mailler, R.
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Understanding how an organism generates movement is an important step toward determining how a system of neurons produces behavior. With only 95 body wall muscles and 302 neurons, Caenorhabditis elegans is an attractive model organism to use in uncovering the connection between neural circuitry and movement. This study provides a comprehensive examination of the muscle cell activity used by C. elegans during both forward and reverse locomotion. By tracking freely moving worms that express genetically encoded calcium indicators in their muscle cells, we directly measure the patterns of activity that occur during movement. We then analyzed these patterns using a variety of signal processing and statistical techniques. Although our results agree with many previous findings, we also discovered there is significantly different mean Ca++ levels in many of the muscle cells during forward and reverse locomotion and, when considered independently, the dorsal and ventral muscle activation waves exhibit classical neuromechanical phase lag (NPL).
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