Fig. 1: Current and past temperature interact with food availability to set worms in distinct behavioral states. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Current and past temperature interact with food availability to set worms in distinct behavioral states.

From: Multisite regulation integrates multimodal context in sensory circuits to control persistent behavioral states in C. elegans

Fig. 1

Behavioral states of young adult C. elegans exposed to defined thermal and feeding treatments (as depicted in a, d, g and j) presented as projections over the two main PCA components from a single analysis of postural and motion parameters over all conditions (b, c, e, f, h, i, k, l). Behavioral transitions unfolding over 6 h presented (i) as its evolution in this PCA space (left panels in b, e, h, k, with numbers indicating the post treatment time in h) and (ii) as a time courses of the distance between each time point and the starting point (t = 0) (right panels). Steady states reached after 6 h of the indicated thermal and/or feeding shifts (c, f, i, l). Positions of individual replicate average as data marks, 95% CI as colored ellipses. Each replicate as a separate worm population with ≥40 animals. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.

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