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SUBMITTER: Sosa-Hernandez E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4636178 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20151106 11
The present work is aimed at characterizing the motility of parasite T. cruzi in its epimastigote form. To that end, we recorded the trajectories of two strains of this parasite (a wild-type strain and a stable transfected strain, which contains an ectopic copy of LYT1 gene and whose motility is known to be affected). We further extracted parasite trajectories from the recorded videos, and statistically analysed the following trajectory-step features: step length, angular change of direction, lo ...[more]