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Inherent movement patterns of larval nematodes, with a stochastic model to simulate movement of infective hookworm larvae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Neil A. Croll  and
Andrew Blair
Neil A. Croll
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Applied Entomology, Imperial College, London University, S. W. 7
Andrew Blair
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Applied Entomology, Imperial College, London University, S. W. 7
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Ancylostoma tubaeforme infective larvae have been tracked in agar and the dominant features of their tracks subjected to a numerical analysis. Very few of the features are uniformly random, most follow a well described normally random frequncy distribution. The mean size of an ‘are’ was 3·61 mm in radius and subtended an angle of 123° at the centre. The length of track per unit time declined with larval age and reversals were the main features to disrupt the pattern of tracks.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 67 , Issue 1 , August 1973 , pp. 53 - 66
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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