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    (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...
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    (ῥάβδος (rhabdos) = rod, wand). The genus Caenorhabditis contains the noted model organism Caenorhabditis elegans and several other species for which a genome...
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    3'-untranslated region are necessary to generate a temporal switch during Caenorhabditis elegans development". Genes & Development. 5 (10): 1813–1824. doi:10.1101/gad...
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  • The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans was first studied in the laboratory by Victor Nigon and Ellsworth Dougherty in the 1940s, but came to prominence...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Daf-2 (category Caenorhabditis elegans genes)
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • H. Robert Horvitz (category 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...
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  • 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...
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    nervous systems of most animals. For example, in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, which feeds on bacteria, serotonin is released as a signal in response...
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    crosses have a variety of applications. Model organisms, such as Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster, are commonly used for test crosses...
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    elegans II. Plainview, N.Y: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. ISBN 978-0-87969-532-3. Brenner, S (1974). "The Genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans"...
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  • which found that it increased the lifespan of yeasts, the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, and fruit flies. Scientists involved in these studies went on to...
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    Daf-16 (category Caenorhabditis elegans genes)
    ortholog of the FOXO family of transcription factors in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. It is responsible for activating genes involved in longevity, lipogenesis...
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    Caenorhabditis elegans- microbe interactions are defined as any interaction that encompasses the association with microbes that temporarily or permanently...
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    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...
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    Genetics of CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS". Genetics. 77 (1): 71–94. doi:10.1093/genetics/77.1.71. PMC 1213120. PMID 4366476. Hobert, O (2005). The C. elegans Research...
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  • 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...
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    this idea in model organisms such as Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans, recent evidence from Michael Ristow's laboratory suggests that...
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    lab investigating sex-determination systems in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. She is a member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. After completing...
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    desiccation. For example, in one study the investigators found that Caenorhabditis elegans dauer is a true anhydrobiote that can withstand extreme desiccation...
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    Sydney Brenner (category Caenorhabditis elegans)
    Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. He established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the investigation of developmental biology...
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  • Caenorhabditis elegans Cer13 virus is a species of virus in the genus Semotivirus and the family Belpaoviridae. It exists as retrotransposons in the Caenorhabditis...
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    for this behavior are the fruit fly, the mouse, and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. The exact cause of postprandial somnolence is unknown but there...
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    began observing cell differentiation and succession in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Dr. Brenner chose this organism due to its transparent body, quick...
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    far only) fully reconstructed connectome belongs to the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans. The major effort began with the first electron micrographs published...
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