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Adler R Dillman1, Wyatt Korff2, Michael H Dickinson3
1Department of Nematology, University of California, Riverside.
Micropublication Biology
|August 6, 2021
Abstract:
Infective juveniles of the insect-parastic nematode Steinernema carpocapsae canjump greater than 6 times their height, a striking evolved novelty in some species of this genus. Using high-speed videography, we observed the kinematics of Steinernema carpocapsae spontaneousjumping behavior. Our analysis places a lower bound on the velocity and acceleration of these worms.

