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research suggests that C. Elegans uses Levy flights or Brownian walks in order to search for food: http://www.genomics.princeton.edu/ryulab/
related: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v381/n6581/abs/381413a0.html
more: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0145870.PDF
I can probably design a statistical test that's reasonably good at detecting whether a worm is off food or in the two other environments(on food, chemotaxis) based on this model of foraging behavior.
started working on this here: https://github.com/openworm/behavioral_syntax/blob/master/models/global_behavior/l%C3%A9vy_flights.py
research suggests that C. Elegans uses Levy flights or Brownian walks in order to search for food: http://www.genomics.princeton.edu/ryulab/
related: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v381/n6581/abs/381413a0.html
more: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0145870.PDF
I can probably design a statistical test that's reasonably good at detecting whether a worm is off food or in the two other environments(on food, chemotaxis) based on this model of foraging behavior.