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Basic Caenorhabditis elegans Methods: Synchronization and Observation
Published on: June 10, 2012
Fibration symmetries and cluster synchronization in the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome
Bryant Avila1, Matteo Serafino1, Pedro Augusto2,3
1Physics Department, Levich Institute, City College of New York, New York, NY, United Stated of America.
Abstract:
Capturing how the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome structure gives rise to its neuron functionality remains unclear. It is through fiber symmetries found in its neuronal connectivity that synchronization of a group of neurons can be determined. To understand these we investigate graph symmetries and search for such in the symmetrized versions of the forward and backward locomotive sub-networks of the Caenorhabditi elegans worm neuron network. The use of ordinarily differential equations simulations admissible to these graphs are used to validate the predictions of these fiber symmetries and are compared to the more restrictive orbit symmetries. Additionally fibration symmetries are used to decompose these graphs into their fundamental building blocks which reveal units formed by nested loops or multilayered fibers. It is found that fiber symmetries of the connectome can accurately predict neuronal synchronization even under not idealized connectivity as long as the dynamics are within stable regimes of simulations.
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