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Avoidance Assay with near ultraviolet (UV) laser light. Behavioral responses to light in front of the animal's path. Both wildtype and double eye ablated worms have a severe response to near UV light (where they reverse direction away from the light), which is lost following Smed-TrpA RNAi.

The planarian TRPA1 homolog mediates extraocular behavioral responses to near-ultraviolet light

Taylor R. Birkholz, and Wendy S. Beane

Journal of Experimental Biology 2017. 220:2616-2625; doi: 10.1242/jeb.152298