Measuring the Effects of Bacteria on C. Elegans Behavior Using an Egg Retention AssayMona Gardner 1, Mary Rosell 1, Edith M. Myers 1
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.
