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.,…
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Worms sleep when confined in microfluidic chambers
To find out how, keep reading below: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/microfluidic-chambers-trigger-sleep-in-c–elegans–66754 Post Views: 1,271
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Once bitten – twice shy
C. elegans remember eating pathogenic Pseudomonas and pass on the information to the next generation. To find out how, click on the link below https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/how-worms-avoid-eating-bad-bacteria-and-warn-their-offspring-too-66846 Post Views: 1,240
2019 December 13
The C. briggsae website (briggsae.org) underwent a major change last week. The site has migrated to a new hosting provider and running on WordPress CMS. This represents a significant shift from old-fashioned HTML coding and site management. Going forward, it…
Ren et al. (2018) report C. nigoni genome sequence assembly and improved C. briggsae assembly
Ren et al. (2018). Genomic basis of recombination suppression in the hybrid between Caenorhabditis briggsae and C. nigoni. Nucleic Acid Research. https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/46/3/1295/4793371 The cb4 C. briggsae assembly contains 5,997 gaps (represented by ‘Ns’) and 361 contigs not anchored to any…