Caenorhabditis
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).
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumNematoda
- ClassChromadorea
- OrderRhabditida
- FamilyRhabditidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations45
via GBIF
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
Article
4 sectionsContents
- Ecology
- Species
- Other phylogenetic studies
- References
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).