Fig. 6.

Effect of mec-10 on posterior gentle touch avoidance. Animals were touched at the indicated positions; forward accelerations were scored as escape responses. One-way ANOVA demonstrated a statistically significant difference in the responses of mec-10(tm1552) animals at different positions along the anteroposterior axis (P < 0.001). All mec-10(tm1552) responses were significantly lower than those of wild-type (P < 0.0005). Expression of genomic mec-10(+) under the mec-4 promoter significantly rescues gentle touch in all positions of stimulation (n >100 per position of stimulation).