PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Monika Scholz
AU  - Dylan J. Lynch
AU  - Kyung Suk Lee
AU  - Erel Levine
AU  - David Biron
TI  - A scalable method for automatically measuring pharyngeal pumping in <em>C. elegans</em>
AID  - 10.1101/051243
DP  - 2016 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 051243
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/02/051243.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/02/051243.full
AB  - We describe a scalable automated method for measuring the pharyngeal pumping of Caenorhabditis elegans in controlled environments. Our approach enables unbiased measurements for prolonged periods, a high throughput, and measurements in controlled yet dynamically changing feeding environments. The automated analysis compares well with scoring pumping by visual inspection, a common practice in the field. In addition, we observed overall low rates of pharyngeal pumping and long correlation times when food availability was oscillated.