Caenorhabditis elegans
Dietary choice behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans
... roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans to study this ...C. elegans behaviors are affected by food, as usually measured by the presence versus absence of the standard worm food, Escherichia coli strain OP50 ...
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The Biosynthesis of Ascarosides in Caenorhabditis elegans
... Ascarosides comprise a family of small signaling molecules that have been shown to regulate important events and behaviors in the life history of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Although the different ...
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The Effects of Ethanol Exposure on the Development of Caenorhabditis elegans
... Recently, Caenorhabditis elegans has been introduced as an ideal model organism for studying the effects of ethanol on ...C. elegans to three different concentrations of ...
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Synaptogenesis Is Modulated by Heparan Sulfate in Caenorhabditis elegans
... ABSTRACT The nervous system regulates complex behaviors through a network of neurons interconnected by synapses. How specific synaptic connections are genetically determined is still unclear. Male mating is the most ...
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A Genetic Analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans Detoxification Response
... C. elegans genetic approach to explore the mechanisms by which a phase II enzyme is induced by endogenous and exogenous ...C. elegans homolog of the mammalian b -propeller repeat-containing protein ...
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Biomechanical Profiling of Caenorhabditis elegans Motility
... atode Caenorhabditis elegans have played a major role in our molecular understanding of these ...C. elegans moves by generating waves of dorsal-ven- tral bends and propagating them along its body ...
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A New Player in the Spermiogenesis Pathway of Caenorhabditis elegans
... in Caenorhabditis elegans sperm activation is ensured by external signaling, which induces the spherical spermatid to reorganize and extend a pseudopod for ...
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A Transparent Window into Biology: A Primer on Caenorhabditis elegans
... worm) Caenorhabditis elegans as a genetic model for understanding questions of developmental biology and ...C. elegans has expanded to explore a wealth of diverse areas in modern biology including ...
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Selection and Maintenance of Androdioecy in Caenorhabditis elegans
... Caenorhabditis elegans is an androdioecious nematode composed of selfing hermaphrodites and rare males. A model of male maintenance demonstrates that selfing rates in hermaphrodites cannot be too high or ...
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Targeted genome engineering in Caenorhabditis elegans
... nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a series of methods have been developed to introduce genome modifications, including random mutagen- esis by chemical reagents, ionizing radiation and transposon ...C. ...
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CRISPR/Cas9-Targeted Mutagenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans
... of Caenorhabditis elegans, including chemical mutagen- esis and imprecise excision of transposons, all rely on recovering mutations in large-scale mutagenesis ...
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Implicating SCF Complexes in Organogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans
... the Caenorhabditis elegans foregut (pharynx) is regulated by a network of proteins that includes the Retinoblastoma protein (pRb) ortholog LIN-35; the ubiquitin pathway components UBC-18 and ARI-1; and ...
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The SUMO system in Caenorhabditis elegans development
... secting the functions of the four C. elegans SUMO proteases. It is still unknown what are their targets, functional differences and mode of regulation of these enzymes. Knockdown of the SUMO protease ULP-2 caused ...
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Epithelial morphogenesis of the Caenorhabditis elegans pharnyx
... Single-cell tubes are found in diverse animal tissues, including the fine capillaries of the vertebrate vascular system, the termini of the Drosophila tracheal system, and the C. elegans excretory (renal) system ...
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Muscle arm development in Caenorhabditis elegans
... Geraldine Seydoux for the construct encoding the GFP::ACT-1 fusion protein; Andrew Fire for vectors; and Andrew Spence for use of his equipment and many helpful discussions. We thank Brent Derry, Joe Culotti and James ...
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POLYPLOIDS AND SEX DETERMINATION IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS
... That at least some of these males were in fact unc-3/unc-3+ was shown by mating them with dpy-21 V; unc-3 X diploid hermaphrodites: non-Dpy Unc-3 hermaphrodite progeny, whi[r] ...
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NONDISJUNCTION MUTANTS OF THE NEMATODE CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS
... Mutants in all ten genes produce diplo-X and nullo-X exceptional ova, and in the four strains tested, diplo-X and nullo-X exceptional sperm are produced by 2X “transformed”[r] ...
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Sex differences in ageing in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
... Also related to the free-radical theory is the mitochondrial theory of ageing. Because mitochondria are major sites of ROS generation (Chance et al 1979), and since their DNA is unprotected by histones and shows poor ...
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DUPLICATIONS IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS
... Hermaphrodites of this genotype with free-X duplications have invariably given frequencies of wild-type progeny lower than Mendelian expectation, apparently because of [r] ...
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Transgenerational epigenetics in the germline cycle of Caenorhabditis elegans
... C. elegans and are presumed to similarly function in complex(es) that have been referred to as Set1/MLL complexes, since it is not clear there is a single complex ...C. elegans causes a general, widespread ...
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