Caenorhabditis elegans

Translingual

Caenorhabditis elegans

Proper noun

Caenorhabditis elegans f

1. A taxonomic species within the family Rhabditidae – a nematode used as a model organism in biological research.
   • 1997, Riddle, Donald L., et al., “The Biological Model”, in C. elegans II‎^[1] (in English), →ISBN, page xx:

     In 1965, Sydney Brenner settled on Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism to study animal development and behavior for reasons that are now well known (Brenner, 1973, 1988).

References

• Caenorhabditis elegans on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Caenorhabditis elegans on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Caenorhabditis elegans on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Riddle, Donald L., Blumenthal, Thomas, Meyer, Barbara J., Priess, James R., editors (1997), C. elegans II, Plainview, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, →ISBN