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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurogenet. 2015 Jul 14;29(0):135–143. doi: 10.3109/01677063.2015.1064916

Figure 4. rg mutant larvae show aberrant locomotion.

Figure 4

(A) Shows larval peristaltic contraction frequencies in CS (n=100) and rg mutants. rgγ7 (n= 100, p<0.0001), rgγ5 (n= 100, p<0.0001) and rgγ1 (n=100, p<0.0001). (B) Larval locomotion velocity data from “Worm Tracker” experiments. rg mutants have a slower velocity than CS. rgγ1 (n= 102, p<0.0001), rgγ4 (n=100, p<0.0001), rgγ5 (n=103, p<0.0001), rgγ7 (n=100, p<0.0001) and rgγ9 (n=103, p<0.0001). (C) Measurements of “kink” or the degree of larval body coiling in rg mutants compared to CS. rgγ1 (n= 102, p<0.0001), rgγ4 (n=100, p<), rgγ5 (n=103, p<0.0001), rgγ7 (n=100, p<0.0001), rgγ9 (n=103, p<0.0001) and rgγ11 (n=102, p<0.0001). (D) Relative larval length measurements fromCS and rg mutants.