Caenorhabditis
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- noun
- /ˌsiːnəˈræbdɪtɪs/
- Specialized
- The Tbx20 orthologue, mab-9, is required for the development of the Caenorhabditis elegans hindgut, whereas several vertebrate Tbx20 genes promote heart development.
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Caenorhabditis elegans model
Examples
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You're nineteen thousand ninety-nine genes of Caenorhabditis elegans and seventeen thousand forty-four genes of Homo sapiens.
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I'm Caenorhabditis elegans, a worm of mud and dirt, presently residing in a petri dish in a green and white-walled research laboratory.
Fiction book (2001) -
A few model organisms have greatly contributed to biological research in the last decades, among them the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Academic text (2017) -
We generated a draft assembly and annotation of the genome of the free-living nematode Oscheius tipulae, a distant relative of the model Caenorhabditis elegans.
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A few model organisms have greatly contributed to biological research in the last decades, among them the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
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Mapping the genes of fruit flies and the tiny nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, for example, will help scientists understand similar biochemical functions in humans.
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Princeton University biologist Coleen Murphy and her colleagues study aging in the roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans.
Compounds
- Specialized
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A small transparent roundworm that scientists use in labs to study genes and how animals grow
Surface Forms
Etymology
Caenorhabditis comes from Greek parts: caeno- meaning 'new' and -rhabditis meaning 'rod' or 'stick'. So the name gives an image of a tiny, stick-like worm and helps you remember it is a small roundworm often used in labs.