Long-tail behavior in locomotion of \textit{Caenorhabditis elegans}

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2010.08.020MaRDI QIDQ1732952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jun Ohkubo, Kazushi Yoshida, Yuichi Iino, Naoki Masuda

Publication date 26 March 2019

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3014

zbMATH Keywords

chemotaxismultiplicative noisenematodepower lawrandom walk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomechanics (92C10)

Abstract: The locomotion of Caenorhabditis elegans exhibits complex patterns. In particular, the worm combines mildly curved runs and sharp turns to steer its course. Both runs and sharp turns of various types are important components of taxis behavior. The statistics of sharp turns have been intensively studied. However, there have been few studies on runs, except for those on klinotaxis (also called weathervane mechanism), in which the worm gradually curves toward the direction with a high concentration of chemicals; this phenomenon was discovered recently. We analyzed the data of runs by excluding sharp turns. We show that the curving rate obeys long-tail distributions, which implies that large curving rates are relatively frequent. This result holds true for locomotion in environments both with and without a gradient of NaCl concentration; it is independent of klinotaxis. We propose a phenomenological computational model on the basis of a random walk with multiplicative noise. The assumption of multiplicative noise posits that the fluctuation of the force is proportional to the force exerted. The model reproduces the long-tail property present in the experimental data.

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