Temporal analysis of stochastic turning behavior of 2 swimming
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swimming C. elegans 3 4 Nikhil Srivastava (1), Damon A. Clark (1), Aravinthan D.T. Samuel (1) 5 6 Department of Physics and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, 7 MA 8 9 Running Head: Turns in swimming worms 10 11 Corresponding author: 12 Aravinthan Samuel 13 17 Oxford Street 14 Cambridge, MA 02138 15 e-mail: [email protected] 16 17 18 19 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (June 17, 2009). doi:10.1152/jn.90952.2008
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