"Caenorhabditis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of small free-living nematodes. Two species, CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS and C. briggsae are much used in studies of genetics, development, aging, muscle chemistry, and neuroanatomy.
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D002107
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.500.294.400.875.660.250
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Caenorhabditis" by people in Profiles.
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Stevens L, Moya ND, Tanny RE, Gibson SB, Tracey A, Na H, Chitrakar R, Dekker J, Walhout AJM, Baugh LR, Andersen EC. Chromosome-Level Reference Genomes for Two Strains of Caenorhabditis briggsae: An Improved Platform for Comparative Genomics. Genome Biol Evol. 2022 04 10; 14(4).
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Tu S, Wu MZ, Wang J, Cutter AD, Weng Z, Claycomb JM. Comparative functional characterization of the CSR-1 22G-RNA pathway in Caenorhabditis nematodes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Jan; 43(1):208-24.
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Reece-Hoyes JS, Shingles J, Dupuy D, Grove CA, Walhout AJ, Vidal M, Hope IA. Insight into transcription factor gene duplication from Caenorhabditis elegans Promoterome-driven expression patterns. BMC Genomics. 2007 Jan 23; 8:27.
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Lee RC, Feinbaum RL, Ambros V. The C. elegans heterochronic gene lin-4 encodes small RNAs with antisense complementarity to lin-14. Cell. 1993 Dec 03; 75(5):843-54.
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Mello CC, Kramer JM, Stinchcomb D, Ambros V. Efficient gene transfer in C.elegans: extrachromosomal maintenance and integration of transforming sequences. EMBO J. 1991 Dec; 10(12):3959-70.
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Aroian RV, Sternberg PW. Multiple functions of let-23, a Caenorhabditis elegans receptor tyrosine kinase gene required for vulval induction. Genetics. 1991 Jun; 128(2):251-67.
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Papp A, Rougvie AE, Ambros V. Molecular cloning of lin-29, a heterochronic gene required for the differentiation of hypodermal cells and the cessation of molting in C.elegans. Nucleic Acids Res. 1991 Feb 11; 19(3):623-30.
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Aroian RV, Koga M, Mendel JE, Ohshima Y, Sternberg PW. The let-23 gene necessary for Caenorhabditis elegans vulval induction encodes a tyrosine kinase of the EGF receptor subfamily. Nature. 1990 Dec 20-27; 348(6303):693-9.
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Han M, Aroian RV, Sternberg PW. The let-60 locus controls the switch between vulval and nonvulval cell fates in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 1990 Dec; 126(4):899-913.
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Liu ZC, Ambros V. Heterochronic genes control the stage-specific initiation and expression of the dauer larva developmental program in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genes Dev. 1989 Dec; 3(12B):2039-49.