2008 August 27
A genome-wide comparative study shows that two-thirds of all transcription factors in C. elegans, C. briggsae, and C. remanei are conserved. Read the paper here.
2008 July 24
New research shows that C. briggsae and C. elegans may have separated less than 30 million years ago. (Read here).
2008 January 22
A paper from Craig Hunter lab (published in PNAS) demonstrates that C. elegans sid-2 gene when expressed in C. briggsae confers environmental RNAi. (Read here).
2007 August 2
August 2, 2007
Ray Miller (WashU) is offering a free service to map
your favorite C. briggsae mutants! The deadline is Friday August 17.
Read the announcement here.
July 31, 2007
The 2008 ‘Development and Evolution’ topic meeting will be held in Wisconsin (June 11-15). See details (here and meeting website)
July 20, 2007
Isolate a new C. elegans sister species and win $4000! Read Wormbase announcement (news and the search guide).
July 3, 2007
The C. briggsae chromosome assembly paper has been published in PLoS Biology (Hillier et al., 2007, vol. 5, e167).
June 28, 2007
The “Evolution” workshop was held at the 2007 UCLA worm meeting. (Click here)
June 1, 2007
A chapter on C. briggsae genomics and biology has been published in Wormbook (“Genetics and genomics” section).
February 11, 2007
The new assembly of C. briggsae genome (version CB3) is now available. (see Wormbase for details.)
2007 July 19
The new C. briggsae website (www.briggsae.org) is up and running…finally!