Genetics, Genomics, and Evolutionary Biology
Boroweic et al. (2020) describes the phenomena in which decaying bodies of older C. elegans turn into nutritious fluid for their offsprings using the insulin/IGF-1 insulin pathway. To read more, please click here Post Views: 1,111
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The article by Kanzaki, N. et al. (2018) describes the first sibling species of C. elegans – C. inopinata including its morphological, ecological, behavioural and genetic analysis. To find out more, please read the article below: Kanzaki, N., Tsai, I.J.,…
Benjamin Podbilewicz has spent many years understanding the process of cell fusion and contributing immensely to the filed. To know about his life and his passion for science, click on the link below http://www.ijdb.ehu.es/web/paper.php?doi=10.1387/ijdb.200220jc Post Views: 1,492
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A new paper by Billard et al. (DOI: j.cub.2020.08.004) reports that a 92-bp deletion in eak-3 alters steroid hormone dafachronic acid (DA) signaling in C. elegans resulting in increased environmental sensitivity for dauer induction and delayed reproductive growth. The findings…
Continue reading Control of life-history trade-off by cis-regulatory mutation in eak-3
To find out how, keep reading below: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/microfluidic-chambers-trigger-sleep-in-c–elegans–66754 Post Views: 1,227
Continue reading Worms sleep when confined in microfluidic chambers