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Revised testing procedures do not elicit magnetoreceptive behavior in C. elegans

Lukas Landler, Gregory C. Nordmann, Simon Nimpf, Tobias Hochstoeger, Daniel Kagerbauer, View ORCID ProfileDavid A. Keays
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/349944
Lukas Landler
1Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Campus Vienna Biocenter 1, Vienna 1030, Austria
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Gregory C. Nordmann
1Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Campus Vienna Biocenter 1, Vienna 1030, Austria
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Simon Nimpf
1Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Campus Vienna Biocenter 1, Vienna 1030, Austria
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Tobias Hochstoeger
1Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Campus Vienna Biocenter 1, Vienna 1030, Austria
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Daniel Kagerbauer
1Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Campus Vienna Biocenter 1, Vienna 1030, Austria
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David A. Keays
1Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Campus Vienna Biocenter 1, Vienna 1030, Austria
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Abstract

A diverse range of species is known to rely on the Earth’s magnetic field for spatial information. Vidal-Gadea et al. claimed that C. elegans are magneto-sensitive, exploiting the magnetic field to guide their burrowing behavior [1]. Our attempts to replicate their findings were unsuccessful [2], which Vidal-Gadea attributed to the satiety of the animals and the environment in which they were raised. Here, we report our repeated experiments, having adopted several suggestions proposed by Vidal-Gadea et al. [3]. We find that shortening the length of the behavioral assay and raising the animals in a Faraday cage does not result in magnetotactic behavior. We reluctantly conclude that the assays employed by Vidal-Gadea are not robust or C. elegans are not magneto-sensitive.

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Revised testing procedures do not elicit magnetoreceptive behavior in C. elegans
Lukas Landler, Gregory C. Nordmann, Simon Nimpf, Tobias Hochstoeger, Daniel Kagerbauer, David A. Keays
bioRxiv 349944; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/349944
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Revised testing procedures do not elicit magnetoreceptive behavior in C. elegans
Lukas Landler, Gregory C. Nordmann, Simon Nimpf, Tobias Hochstoeger, Daniel Kagerbauer, David A. Keays
bioRxiv 349944; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/349944

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