Caenorhabditis elegans

Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans is a microscopic (~1 mm) nematode (roundworm) that normally lives in soil. It has become one of the "model" organisms in biology because: ...

This is illustrated clearly by the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, which was the first multicellular organism to have its entire genome sequenced.

Caenorhabditis elegans. Richard Wilson [Washington University (WU) School of Medicine Genome Sequencing Center, St.

Caenorhabditis elegans: A normally self-fertilizing hermaphrodite soil nematode whose developmental genetics has been extensively studied. It is no more than 1 mm long.

2 Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans)
This free-living nematode has been used in research since the mid-1960's and is important in the study of cell differentiation. An adult worm is about 1mm in length and feeds on bacteria.

Nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans
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Insect, Drosophila melanogaster aka Fruit Fly ...

One nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, has only one thousand genes in its genome and its developmental pathways are well known. C.

Starting in the 1960s geneticists interested in developmental questions turned to a free-living soil nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans. This species, usually referred to as just C.

Glycome project: concept, strategy and preliminary application to Caenorhabditis elegans (A proposal to base the glycome project on Caenorhabditis Elegans a microscopic worm, whose entire genome is already sequenced) ...

Model organisms for developmental biology include the round worm Caenorhabditis elegans,[38] the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster,[39] the zebrafish Danio rerio[40], the mouse Mus musculus,[41], and the weed Arabidopsis thaliana.

Within the past decade much biological research has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode, and its genome has been sequenced.

See also: Organ, Human, Genome, Sequence, Trans