(rod-like) and Latin elegans (elegant). In 1900, Maupas initially named it Rhabditides elegans. Osche placed it in the subgenus Caenorhabditis in 1952, and in...

(ῥάβδος (rhabdos) = rod, wand). The genus Caenorhabditis contains the noted model organism Caenorhabditis elegans and several other species for which a genome...

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is often used as a model organism for studying aging at the molecular level. For example, in C. elegans aging negatively...

The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans was first studied in the laboratory by Victor Nigon and Ellsworth Dougherty in the 1940s, but came to prominence...

especially large ganglion at the front, called the brain. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been studied because of its importance in genetics. In the early...

3'-untranslated region are necessary to generate a temporal switch during Caenorhabditis elegans development". Genes & Development. 5 (10): 1813–1824. doi:10.1101/gad...

for the insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) receptor in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans. DAF-2 is part of the first metabolic pathway discovered to regulate...

abnormalities. Most expression in Aplysia spp. is in neural cells. The gene in C. elegans is let 60. Also appears to play a role in receptor tyrosine kinase formation...

Caenorhabditis elegans. Bursilla monhysteria (Butschli, 1873) Caenorhabditis brenneri Sudhaus & Kiontke, 2007 Caenorhabditis briggsae Caenorhabditis dolichura...

research are the mouse, the fruit fly, the nematode C. elegans, and the barn owl. The Caenorhabditis Elegans roundworm is a highly researched organism in the...

nervous systems of most animals. For example, in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, which feeds on bacteria, serotonin is released as a signal in response...

elegans II. Plainview, N.Y: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. ISBN 978-0-87969-532-3. Brenner, S (1974). "The Genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans"...

1947) is an American biologist whose research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together...

Cruz VE, Guo X, Engert C, Schwartz TU, Ploegh HL (May 2016). "The Caenorhabditis elegans Protein FIC-1 Is an AMPylase That Covalently Modifies Heat-Shock...

simulating the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans at the cellular level. Although the long-term goal is to model all 959 cells of the C. elegans, the first stage...

PMID 19411825. Ogura K, Wicky C, Magnenat L, et al. (October 1994). "Caenorhabditis elegans unc-51 gene required for axonal elongation encodes a novel serine/threonine...

which found that it increased the lifespan of yeasts, the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, and fruit flies. Scientists involved in these studies went on to...

crosses have a variety of applications. Model organisms, such as Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster, are commonly used for test crosses...

matricida) is a form of vivipary observed in nematodes, namely Caenorhabditis elegans. The process is characterized by eggs hatching within the parent...

Physiology or Medicine for their work on RNAi in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, which they published in 1998. Since the discovery of RNAi and its...

His research interests are in the biology of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans and laser microscopy. White was educated at Brunel University, where...

identification of non-coding RNA 2,2,7-trimethylguanosine cap structures in Caenorhabditis elegans". BMC Molecular Biology. 8: 86. doi:10.1186/1471-2199-8-86. PMC 2200864...

began observing cell differentiation and succession in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Dr. Brenner chose this organism due to its transparent body, quick...

by nearly 50% A mutation in the age−1 gene of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans increased mean life span 65% and maximum life span 110%. However...

possibly involving intrinsically disordered proteins. In 2011, Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode that is also one of the best-studied model organisms...

Francisco where she worked on developmental plasticity in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Following her Ph.D., she worked at the University of Arizona for...

Caenorhabditis brenneri is a small nematode, closely related to the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. Its genome is being sequenced by Washington...

Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. He established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the investigation of developmental biology...

this idea in model organisms such as Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans, recent evidence from Michael Ristow's laboratory suggests that...

far only) fully reconstructed connectome belongs to the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans. The major effort began with the first electron micrographs published...