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 Caenorhabditis elegans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caenorhabditis elegans (pronounced see-no-rab-DYE-tis) is a free-living nematode (one of the roundworms), about 1 mm in length, which lives in a temperate soil environment.
elegans is vermiform, bilaterally symmetric, with a cuticle integument, no segmentations, with four main epidermal cords and a fluid-filled pseudocoelomate cavity.
In both sexes, a large number of additional cells (131 in the hermaphrodite, most of which would otherwise become neurons), are eliminated by programmed cell death (apoptosis).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans   (759 words)

  
 Caenorhabditis elegans WWW Server   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Caenorhabditis elegans is a small (about 1 mm long) soil nematode found in temperate regions.
Sydney Brenner began using it to study the genetics of development and neurobiology.
The Genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans, An Introduction for more information.
elegans.swmed.edu   (68 words)

  
 Model organisms: Caenorhabditis elegans
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a very simple animal that can be handled like a microbe but it shares many genes and molecular pathways with humans.
Caenorhabditis elegans is a soil-dwelling nematode worm about 1 mm in length that feeds on bacteria.
C. elegans was chosen in 1963 specifically to provide a new model for scientists studying animal development.
www.wellcome.ac.uk /en/genome/genesandbody/hg05b007.html   (559 words)

  
 Caenorhabditis elegans - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
elegans have been especially useful for studying cellular differentiation, and was the first animal to have its genome completely sequenced.
The developmental fate of all of its 959 somatic cells has been mapped out, which are left from the original 1090 cells, after 131 are eliminated by apoptosis.
In 2002, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston for their work on the genetics of development and programmed cell death in C. elegans.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Caenorhabditis_elegans   (509 words)

  
 Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans is a microscopic (~1 mm) nematode (roundworm) that normally lives in soil.
elegans was the first multicellular eukaryote to have its entire genome sequenced.
Like all animals, C. elegans starts life as a fertilized egg (zygote) which then undergoes the mitotic divisions needed to produce the adult.
users.rcn.com /jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/Caen.elegans.html   (755 words)

  
 Exploring News & Features - The Elegant Worm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
elegans for short — is a tiny worm, slightly smaller than an eyelash.
It normally lives in compost heaps, but, in the last 30 years, it has moved into the research laboratory where it has become a valuable animal model for exploring the basic processes involved in the development and behavior of multi-cellular organisms, including humans.
elegans to study the death of dopamine neurons - the same type of nerve cells that die in humans suffering from Parkinson's disease.
exploration.vanderbilt.edu /news/news_worm.htm   (715 words)

  
 http://eatworms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Caenorhabditis briggsae, this can be given the same gene name, preceded by three italic letters referring to the species, and a hyphen.
elegans with exogenous DNA by microinjection usually leads to the formation of a transmissible extrachromosomal array containing many copies of the introduced DNA.
elegans cytogenetics; these are given italicized names consisting of the laboratory mutation prefix, the relevant abbreviation, and a number, optionally followed by the affected linkage groups in parentheses (e.g.,
www.cbs.umn.edu /CGC/Nomenclature/nomenguid.htm   (2842 words)

  
 Caenorhabditis elegans embryo, anteroposterior axis
Exquisite genetic and cell manipulation studies using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans have examined the establishment of the anteroposterior axis.
Although much is known about Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode that is often used as a model system for studying development, the source of the initial asymmetry in its development was not understood until the work of Goldstein and Hird (1996).
elegans oocytes are fertilised at their leading edge as they pass from the oviduct into the spermatheca.
www.ucalgary.ca /~browder/c_elegans_ap.html   (1018 words)

  
 C. elegans Project
The Sanger Institute and the Genome Sequencing Center at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis have collaborated to sequence the genomes of both C.
elegans sequence was published in Science in December 1998 (additional notes here including the full list of authors) and the last remaining gap in the sequence was finished in October 2002.
Caenorhabditis elegans WWW Server: Resources for the C.
www.sanger.ac.uk /Projects/C_elegans   (359 words)

  
 C. elegans: Sequence to Biology -- Hodgkin et al. 282 (5396): 2011 -- Science
The animal is a small invertebrate, the nematode (or roundworm) Caenorhabditis elegans, and the sequence consists of about 97 million base pairs of DNA, approximately one-thirtieth the number in the human genome.
Caenorhabditis elegans is known for its advanced genetic information and complete descriptions of its cellular anatomy, cell lineage, and neuronal wiring diagram.
elegans in the animal kingdom and the significance of its DNA sequence as an aid to understanding and controlling nematode parasites.
www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/summary/282/5396/2011   (796 words)

  
 Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans was initially described and named Rhabditis elegans by Maupas (1900) who collected it from rich humus soil in Algeria (north Africa) (Fatt, 1961); it was subsequently placed in the subgenus Caenorhabditis by Osche (1952) and then raised to generic status by Dougherty (1955).
elegans as a model system in genetics and developmental biology can be attributed to Ellsworth C. Dougherty.
A morphological mutant of Rhabditis briggsae, a free-living soil nematode.
plpnemweb.ucdavis.edu /nemaplex/taxadata/G900S2.htm   (744 words)

  
 Caenorhabditis elegans WWW Server   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Since then the community of C elegans researchers has expanded to over a thousand.
Biologists unfamiliar with C elegans may find Mark Blaxter's The Genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans, An Introduction useful.
The official Caenorhabditis elegans Server in the US will always be the most up-to-date and authoritative.
elegans.imbb.forth.gr   (85 words)

  
 Human Genome News Vol.10,No.1-2, February 1999
The 97-million-base genome of the tiny roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans was deciphered by an international team led by Robert Waterston (Washington University School of Medicine, St.Louis) and John Sulston (Sanger Centre, Cambridge, England).
The two genomes are being compared in an attempt to identify elements essential for eukaryotic life and the genetic requirements for progression from a unicellular to multicellular existence.
elegans genome is packaged into 6 chromosomes containing about 19,000 genes, several times the number originally predicted by classical genetics experiments.
www.ornl.gov /hgmis/publicat/hgn/v10n1/08celeg.html   (801 words)

  
 Caenorhabditis elegans
elegans is probably the most completely understood organism.
Scientists have chronicled every one of the cell divisions that produce the mature 959-cell adult worm from a single fertilized egg.
elegans, scientists have already learned crucial lessons about cancer, Alzheimers disease, muscular dystrophies, aging, and many other important aspects of human biology.
www.mcb.arizona.edu /wardlab/Caenowhat.html   (149 words)

  
 Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans; Caenorhabditis elegans / genetics; Caenorhabditis elegans / physiology
elegans Genome Project page is provided by The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, as part of a sequencing effort in collaboration with the Genome Sequencing Center at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis.
elegans Ensembl provides: easy access to sequence data; for known genes, predicted structure and location in the genome sequence; prediction of novel genes, all with supporting evidence; and annotation of other features of the genome.
bioresearch.ac.uk /browse/mesh/D017173.html   (1182 words)

  
 Mutant Sensory Cilia in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
Mutant Sensory Cilia in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
Attraction of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to pyridine.
Chemotactic behavior of mutants of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans that are defective in osmotic avoidance.
www.wormatlas.org /Perkins_1986/references.html   (873 words)

  
 caenorhabditis elegans - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 Caenorhabditis Elegans
elegans is a roundworm, but a famous one.
Here are some of the interesting things to be seen as cells proliferate, live, and die.
elegans is bilaterally symmetrical, but the pattern of cell generation on the right differs from that on the left.
www.science-frontiers.com /sf035/sf035p14.htm   (237 words)

  
 C. elegans Movies
This page has links to timelapse films made by C. elegans researchers worldwide.
elegans develops from a single cell, the fertilized egg, to a 558-celled worm in about 14 hours.
The worm that crawls out of its eggshell has a functioning feeding apparatus, gut, nervous system and muscles.
www.bio.unc.edu /faculty/goldstein/lab/movies.html   (127 words)

  
 Caenorhabditis elegans Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center will provide worm strains and bacteria to educational institutions at no cost.
elegans is "N2" (these are descendants of a strain originally isolated in Bristol, England, in the 1940s).
elegans — Jim Thomas’s lab, in the Dept. of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, and Jim Priess’s and Mark Roth’s labs at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
students.washington.edu /~jtenlen/sep/celegans.html   (2736 words)

  
 biology - Caenorhabditis elegans
It comprises of 302 neurons and has been completely mapped out.
elegans insulin-like receptor gene, have been shown to double the lifespan of the worm.
Eureka Alert article about context-dependent recall of associative learning in C. elegans
www.biologydaily.com /biology/Caenorhabditis_elegans   (755 words)

  
 WormBase - Home Page
WormBase is pleased to introduce the WormBaseWiki, a site to share announcements about meetings, protocols, job opportunites, or anything pertinent to working with C. elegans.
elegans II book (1997), The Mind of a Worm (White et al, 1986), The Genetics of C.
elegans (Brenner, 1974), Durbin Ph.D. thesis (1987), Modes et formes...
www.wormbase.org   (590 words)

  
 Prominent genome projects: C. elegans
WormBase - The Biology and Genome of C. elegans
Founded in 2000, the WormBase is an international consortium of biologists and computer scientists dedicated to providing comprehensive information concerning the genetics, genomics and biology of Caenorhabditis elegans.
The WormBase database provides mapping, sequencing and phenotypic information for C. elegans and some related nematodes.
www.argosbiotech.de /700/omics/genomics/mo/gp_celeg.htm   (115 words)

  
 Fitch Lab Home Page
As a model organism for isolating and understanding the functions of genes controlling male tail form, we use Caenorhabditis elegans, also a member of family Rhabditidae.
elegans is rounded (PELODERAN) at the tip, a form that is due to a morphogenetic event in the last larval stage in which the tail tip cells fuse together and change shape.
To identify the components and regulatory networks governing the developmental process of morphogenesis, we screen for mutations that fail in male tail tip morphogenesis.
www.nyu.edu /projects/fitch   (617 words)

  
 Dopamine and Caenorhabditis elegans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The plasticity of dopamine-mediated behaviors, for example, habituation and sensitization, are not well understood at the molecular level.
We show that in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a D1-like dopamine receptor gene (dop-1) modulates the plasticity of mechanosensory behaviors in which dopamine had not been implicated previously.
Selective expression of the dop-1 gene in mechanosensory neurons using the mec-7 promoter rescues the mechanosensory deficit in dop-1 mutant animals.
www.mesolimbic.com /pleasure/c-elegans.html   (228 words)

  
 Parasitology: proteome maps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Caenorhabditis elegans run on a 4-7 pH IPG gradient.
Fasciola hepatica (whole) run on a 3-10 pH IPG gradient.
Necator americanus excretory secretory product run on a 3-10 pH IPG gradient (material kindly supplied by D.I Pritchard, Nottingham University).
www.aber.ac.uk /~mpgwww/Proteome/ProtMaps.html   (59 words)

  
 Caenorhabditis elegans Genetics and Genomics
C elegans Genome Project WWW Site (Sanger Centre, UK)
European Bioinformatics Institute: Proteome analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans
National Bioresource Project for the Experimental Animal C elegans
elegans.swmed.edu /genome.shtml   (37 words)

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