Figure 1. A. oligospora attracts many nematode species, including C. elegans.
(A) Schematic representation of the 4-point chemotaxis assays and the formulation used to calculate the chemotaxis index (CI). (B) C. elegans adults are attracted to A. oligospora, but the dauers and the L1 larvae have much weaker attraction (Mean ± SD, n = 4–12 trials). (C) Speed of wild-type C. elegans on A. oligospora culture or medium only control. Locomotion of the animals was tracked by the commercial WormLab system (MBF bioscience). (D) Many Caenorhabditis nematodes and the more distant Panagrellus redivivus, Pristionchus pacificus, and Bursaphelenchus xylophilus were attracted to A. oligospora (Mean ± SD, n = 4–12 trials). (E) SEM image of C. elegans trapped in A. oligospora. Scale bar = 10 μm.