"Caenorhabditis elegans" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of nematode that is widely used in biological, biochemical, and genetic studies.
| Descriptor ID |
D017173
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.500.294.400.875.660.250.250
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Caenorhabditis elegans" by people in this website by year, and whether "Caenorhabditis elegans" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 1997 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 1999 | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| 2000 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2001 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 2002 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| 2003 | 12 | 5 | 17 |
| 2004 | 9 | 3 | 12 |
| 2005 | 13 | 4 | 17 |
| 2006 | 17 | 7 | 24 |
| 2007 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2008 | 13 | 3 | 16 |
| 2009 | 16 | 3 | 19 |
| 2010 | 17 | 4 | 21 |
| 2011 | 20 | 2 | 22 |
| 2012 | 20 | 7 | 27 |
| 2013 | 21 | 5 | 26 |
| 2014 | 14 | 9 | 23 |
| 2015 | 23 | 8 | 31 |
| 2016 | 20 | 7 | 27 |
| 2017 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| 2018 | 20 | 2 | 22 |
| 2019 | 16 | 8 | 24 |
| 2020 | 14 | 3 | 17 |
| 2021 | 21 | 6 | 27 |
| 2022 | 14 | 7 | 21 |
| 2023 | 9 | 7 | 16 |
| 2024 | 14 | 4 | 18 |
| 2025 | 14 | 3 | 17 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Caenorhabditis elegans" by people in Profiles.
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Oliver DB, Ramachandran S, Biswas K, B?nard CY, Doitsidou M, McKillop H, Genao N, Lemons ML, Francis MM. Genome-wide analysis reveals pathways important for the development and maturation of excitatory synaptic connections to GABAergic neurons. G3 (Bethesda). 2026 04 01; 16(4).
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Ambros VR, Chalfie M, Daul AL, Fire AZ, Hall DH, Horvitz HR, Mello CC, Ruvkun G, Schroeder NE, Sternberg PW, Rougvie AE. From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Dec 02; 122(48):e2522808122.
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Ertekin A, Noronha ST, Darko C, Massi F, Ryder SP. A conserved triple arginine motif in OMA-1 is required for RNA-binding activity and embryo viability. RNA. 2025 10 16; 31(11):1575-1588.
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Brown HE, Varderesian HV, Lam O, Keane SA, Ryder SP. The mex-3 3' untranslated region is essential for reproduction during temperature stress. Development. 2025 Sep 01; 152(17).
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Bergmann A. Cell Death, Compensatory Proliferation, and Cell Competition. Annu Rev Genet. 2025 11; 59(1):165-187.
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Ahmed M, Fischer S, Robert KL, Lange KI, Stuck MW, Best S, Johnson CA, Pazour GJ, Blacque OE, Nandadasa S. Cleavage of the Meckel-Gruber syndrome protein TMEM67 by ADAMTS9 uncouples Wnt signaling and ciliogenesis. Nat Commun. 2025 May 28; 16(1):4946.
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Zhang H, Li X, Song D, Yukselen O, Nanda S, Kucukural A, Li JJ, Garber M, Walhout AJM. Worm Perturb-Seq: massively parallel whole-animal RNAi and RNA-seq. Nat Commun. 2025 May 23; 16(1):4785.
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Wang R, Baehrecke EH. Atg9 is a conserved regulator of lysosome repair. J Cell Biol. 2025 Jul 07; 224(7).
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Yin X, Wang R, Thackeray A, Baehrecke EH, Alkema MJ. VPS13D mutations affect mitochondrial homeostasis and locomotion in Caenorhabditis elegans. G3 (Bethesda). 2025 04 17; 15(4).
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Tse-Kang S, Wani KA, Pukkila-Worley R. Patterns of pathogenesis in innate immunity: insights from C. elegans. Nat Rev Immunol. 2025 Sep; 25(9):637-648.