Genetics, Genomics, and Evolutionary Biology
A recent paper by Nelson and Ambros [1] reports that let-7 heterochronic microRNA is absent in Caenorhabditis species of the japonica group. Research in C. elegans has shown that let-7 plays an essential role during larval to adult transition and mutations…
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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
Like all other worm meetings this year, C. elegans evolution meeting will be held virtually . The dates are June 24-25. The schedule sounds exciting with more than 40 talks and 40 posters. There will be 200+ participants. There are…
Update on the topic meeting “Ecology, Evolution and Genomics of C. elegans and Other Nematodes”: Due to the COVID-19 crisis, physical meeting has been cancelled. The possibility of a virtual, on-line meeting is being explored. The other two topic meetings…
This year’s C. elegans topic meeting “Ecology, Evolution and Genomics of C. elegans and Other Nematodes” will be held June 24-27 at McMaster University. Organizers are Te-Wen Lo, Patrick Phillips, Annalise Paaby, and Christian Braendle [Source: wormmeetings@weebly]. Last time the…