(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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...