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Measuring the Effects of Bacteria on C. Elegans Behavior Using an Egg Retention Assay

Mona Gardner¹, Mary Rosell¹, Edith M. Myers¹

¹Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Fairleigh Dickinson University

An egg-in-worm (EIW) assay is a useful method to quantify egg-laying behavior. Alterations in egg laying can be a behavioral response of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans to potentially harmful environmental substances such as those produced by pathogenic bacteria.