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Caenorhabditis
Sign in to saveCaenorhabditis is a genus of nematodes which live in bacteria-rich environments like compost piles, decaying dead animals and rotting fruit. The name comes from Greek: caeno- ( () = new, recent); rhabditis = rod-like ( () = rod, wand).
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Vinony's link graph records 53 inbound references to Caenorhabditis, and connects out to gonochorism, Animalia and insect.
It sits within the topics Caenorhabditis and Rhabditida genera.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumNematoda
- ClassChromadorea
- OrderRhabditida
- FamilyRhabditidae
Caenorhabditis is geslacht van rondwormen (nematoden) die leven in een omgeving waarin veel bacteriën zijn zoals composthopen en kadavers. Een bekende vertegenwoordiger van dit geslacht is Caenorhabditis elegans, het eerste dier waarvan het genoom volledig in kaart werd gebracht. C. elegans en C. briggsae zijn de meest bestudeerde soorten uit dit geslacht. Ze zijn beide tweeslachtig terwijl de andere soorten (zoals de meeste dieren) eenslachtig zijn. Taxonomie De Catalogue of life (ITIS) onderscheidt vier soorten: Caenorhabditis briggsae Caenorhabditis dolichura Caenorhabditis elegans Caenorhabditis rara Volgens de taxonomy browser zijn er inmiddels meer dan 20 soorten.[1] Bronnen, noten en/of referenties ↑ download 13/11/2011
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Research
42,322 papers- Caenorhabditis nomenclature.WormBook : the online review of C. elegans biology · 2018
- Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model to Study Aging and Photoaging.Biomolecules · 2024
- Caenorhabditis elegans development.Current opinion in cell biology · 1989
- Kinesins in Caenorhabditis elegans neuronal morphogenesis.Open biology · 2025
- Caenorhabditis evolution in the wild.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2015
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- Rhabditidae
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- Adult Caenorhabditis elegans.jpg
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Caenorhabditis is a genus of nematodes which live in bacteria-rich environments like compost piles, decaying dead animals and rotting fruit. The name comes from Greek: caeno- ( () = new, recent); rhabditis = rod-like ( () = rod, wand).
The genus Caenorhabditis contains the noted model organism Caenorhabditis elegans and several other species for which a genome sequence is either available or currently being determined. The two most-studied species in this genus (C. elegans and C. briggsae) are both androdioecious (they have male and hermaphrodite sexes) whereas most other species are gonochoristic (they have male and female sexes).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caenorhabditis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.