Caenorhabditis elegans is a nonparasitic nematode that normally lives in the soil. Although studied since the 1800s, the modern use of C. elegans as a model system dates to the mid-1960s. By the start of that decade, scientists thought that the...

The nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, has long been popular with developmental biologists. However, recently it has been presented as a model system for the investigation of the neural basis of LEARNING and MEMORY. C. elegans offers the only...

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Caenorhabditis elegans (pronounced /ˌsiːnoʊræbˈdaɪtɪs ˈɛlɪgænz/) is a free-living nematode (roundworm), about 1 mm in length, which lives in temperate soil environments. Research into the molecular and developmental biology of C. elegans...

ABSTRACT We have observed a gamete-of-origin imprinting effect in C. elegans using a set of GFP reporter transgenes. From a single progenitor line carrying an extrachromosomal unc-54::gfp transgene array, we generated three independent autosomal integrations of the unc-54::gfp transgene. The progenitor line, two...

ABSTRACT The detailed composition and structure of the Caenorhabditis elegans surface are unknown. Previous genetic studies used antibody or lectin binding to identify srf genes that play roles in surface determination. Infection by Microbacterium nematophilum identified bus (bacterially unswollen) genes that also affect...