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unusual facts about ''C. elegans''



B. elegans

Banksia elegans, a shrub or small tree species found only over a 65 square kilometre area north and west of Eneabba, Western Australia

Bonamia elegans (syn. Breweria elegans or Breweriopsis elegans), a flowering plant species found in Myanmar

Bioastronautics

This may take the form of accelerated growth in organisms as diverse as worms like C. elegans to miniature parasitoid wasps such as Spangia endius.

Caspase

H. Robert Horvitz initially established the importance of caspases in apoptosis and found that the ced-3 gene is required for the cell death that took place during the development of the nematode C. elegans.

Cell junction

Invertebrates have several other types of specific junctions, for example septate junctions or the C. elegans apical junction.

Connotea

By categorising articles with relevant keywords e.g. "C. elegans", the social aspect of Connotea was developed.

Cytoplasmic determinant

It is most of all known in certain animals as nematodes C. elegans, or ascidians (marine animals).

David Baulcombe

In 1998 Craig Mello and Andrew Fire reported a potent gene silencing effect after injecting double stranded RNA into C. elegans.

ETS transcription factor family

In addition, Ets factors, e.g. the vertebrate Etv1 and the invertebrate Ast-1, have been shown to be important players in the specification and differentiation of dopaminergic neurons in both C. elegans and olfactory bulbs of mice.

FOXP2 and human evolution

For example, LIN-3, a forkhead protein in C. Elegans, regulates vulva development and when phosphorylated acts as a transcriptional activator, promoting cells to adopt a particular cell type.

G. elegans

Gypsophila elegans, the annual baby's-breath or showy baby's-breath, an ornamental plant species native to Asia and Europe

H. elegans

Heuchera elegans, the urn-flowered alumroot, a flowering plant species endemic to California

Hyospathe elegans, a palm species in the genus Hyospathe widespread in Central and South America, southward to Bolivia

J. elegans

Joinvillea elegans, a flowering plant species found in New Caledonia

K. elegans

Koelreuteria elegans, the Chinese rain tree, a deciduous tree species native to Taiwan and southern China

N. elegans

Naso elegans, the elegant unicornfish, Indian orange-spine unicorn, orange-spine unicorn or smoothheaded unicornfish, a tropical fish found in coral reefs in the Indian Ocean

Neoheterandria elegans, the tiger teddy, a small livebearing fish species found in Colombia

RBM9

RBM9 is one of several human genes similar to the C. elegans gene Fox-1.

Small-world experiment

They showed that networks from both the natural and man-made world, such as the neural network of C. elegans and power grids, exhibit the small-world phenomenon.

Watts and Strogatz model

Consequently, the model is able to at least partially explain the "small-world" phenomena in a variety of networks, such as the power grid, neural network of C. elegans, and a network of movie actors.

X. elegans

Xyroptila elegans, a moth species found in north-eastern New Guinea and Australia

Xanthoria elegans, the elegant sunburst lichen, a lichenized fungus species

Z. elegans

Zinnia elegans, the common zinnia or youth-and-old-age, a flowering plant species


see also

Asymmetric cell division

Helobdella robusta: The leech Helobdella robusta exhibits a similar asymmetry in the first embryonic division as C. elegans and tubifex, but relies on a modified mechanism.

NeuN

The mammalian genome contains three genes homologous to C. elegans Fox-1, called Fox-1, Fox-2 and Fox-3.

RDE-1

The rde-1 gene locus was first characterized in C. elegans mutants resistant to RNAi, and is a member of a highly conserved Piwi gene family that includes plant, Drosophila, and vertebrate homologs.

Robert Horovitz

Dr. Horvitz began his work with C. elegans in the 1970s, working with John Sulston.