Week of August 17, 2026
This weeks updates include two preprints covered in early August now published: the C. briggsae diversity survey in MBE, and the C. tropicalis survey in GENETICS. Plus programmed DNA elimination, ancestral to the genus.
C. briggsae Roundup: Week of August 10th, 2026
Papers published earlier this year including the Ellis lab’s dissection of self-fertility in C. tropicalis, benzimidazole resistance behaving unexpectedly in C. briggsae, and a new fungal pathogen found first in wild C. briggsae.
C. briggsae Roundup: Week of August 3rd, 2026
A telomere-to-telomere reference for AF16, satellite DNA loss under selfing, and new work on Haldane’s rule.
The site is back (again)… weekly digests from now on
After a long quiet stretch, the news page is running again, woo hoo!
A simple method to dramatically increase C. elegans germline microinjection efficiency
Gibney et al., (2023) describe a paintbrush based method to improve the speed and survival of microinjections in C. elegans.