Towering behavior and collective dispersal in Caenorhabditis nematodes
Daniela M Perez, Ryan Greenway, Thomas Stier, Narcís Font-Massot, Assaf Pertzelan, and Siyu Serena Ding
Current Biology, 2025
Perez et al. report that self-assembling nematode towers occur in nature and can function as collective dispersal structures. Using Caenorhabditis elegans, they establish a tractable empirical model to further study the mechanism and evolution of collective dispersal behavior.
