{"id":771,"date":"2012-07-30T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/vaol\/?p=771"},"modified":"2013-07-12T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T18:38:25","slug":"swimming-frequencies-of-freely-swimming-c-elegans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/2012\/07\/30\/swimming-frequencies-of-freely-swimming-c-elegans\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming Frequencies of Freely Swimming C. elegans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most, if not all, studies of thrashing frequencies of swimming frequencies of C. elegans have been conducted using microscopic techniques. \u00a0 Microscopic techniques require microscopic life to remain in a focal plane within microns. \u00a0Using microscopic techniques, the C. elegans are therefore &#8216;slipping and sliding&#8217; on a microscope slide in a water droplet. \u00a0The worms are then not truly freely swimming since they are making contact with the microscope slide. \u00a0Using laser diffraction, we found that the average thrashing frequency of swimming <em>C. elegans <\/em>differs significantly from nematodes on a microscope slide by about 0.3 Hz. \u00a0Our new article on thrashing thrashing frequencies of freely swimming\u00a0<em>C. elegans<\/em>\u00a0can be downloaded from the\u00a0<a title=\"Open Journal of Biophysics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scirp.org\/journal\/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=21423\" target=\"_blank\">Open Journal of Biophysics<\/a>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scirp.org\/journal\/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=21423\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.scirp.org\/journal\/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=21423<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More publications are listed here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/pubs\/\">http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/pubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most, if not all, studies of thrashing frequencies of swimming frequencies of C. elegans have been conducted using microscopic techniques. \u00a0 Microscopic techniques require microscopic life to remain in a focal plane within microns. \u00a0Using microscopic techniques, the C. elegans are therefore &#8216;slipping and sliding&#8217; on a microscope slide in a water droplet. \u00a0The worms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/2012\/07\/30\/swimming-frequencies-of-freely-swimming-c-elegans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swimming Frequencies of Freely Swimming C. elegans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4084,555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-elegans","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vaol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}