Caenorhabditis elegans

Translingual

Caenorhabditis elegans

Proper noun

Caenorhabditis elegans f

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 (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

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