Caenorhabditis elegans
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| Caenorhabditis elegans | |
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| An adult hermaphrodite C. elegans wirm | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Cless: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Faimily: | Rhabditidae |
| Genus: | Caenorhabditis |
| Species: | C. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Caenorhabditis elegans | |
| Subspecies | |
Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-livin (nae parasitic), transparent nematode (roondwirm), aboot 1 mm in lenth,[3] that lives in temperate sile environs. The name is a blend o the Greek caeno- (recent), rhabditis (rod-lik)[4] an Laitin elegans (elegant). In 1900, Maupas ineetially named it Rhabditides elegans, Osche placed it in the subgenus Caenorhabditis in 1952, an in 1955, Dougherty raised it tae the status o genus.[5]
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- ↑ Maupas, É (1900). "Modes et formes de reproduction des nématodes". Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale. 8: 463–624.
- ↑ Moerman, D. G.; Waterston, R. H. (1984). "Spontaneous Unstable UNC-22 IV Mutations in C. ELEGANS Var. Bergerac". Genetics. 108 (4): 859–877. PMC 1224270. PMID 6096205.
- ↑ Wood, WB (1988). The Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-87969-433-5.
- ↑ καινός (caenos) = new, recent; ῥάβδος (rhabdos) = rod, wand.
- ↑ Ferris, H (30 November 2013). "Caenorhabditis elegans". University of California, Davis. Archived frae the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
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