RevieweLife2015
C. elegans outside the Petri dish.
Review in eLife, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 270 papers.
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270 citing papers in PubMed.
- Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects.Evolution letters · 2026Article
- Chemical Carnivory in Pleurotus: Induced Toxin Droplets Contain 3-Octanone and Candidate Nematicides.Journal of chemical ecology · 2026Article
- Virulent Parasites Emerge in Hosts With Rising Temperatures.Global change biology · 2026Article
- The Caenorhabditis elegans microbiome impacts microsporidia infection through nutrient limitation and spore inactivation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Mating strategies in Caenorhabditis elegans populations are determined by male developmental history.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Article
- Basal cytoplasmic calcium levels regulate C. elegans germ stem cell proliferation.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Environmental microbial extracts for longitudinal studies of gut microbiome assembly and maintenance.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Worms About Town: a citizen science project discovers microsporidian parasites of nematodes through environmental sampling.Biology open · 2026Article
- Origins of Self-Fertility in ThreeBiology · 2026Review
- Caenorhabditis diversity on Pohnpei, Micronesia, provides evidence that the Elegans Supergroup has its roots in the Americas and diversified in the Pacific en route to Asia.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2026Article
- Navigating theNanoscale advances · 2026Review
- Differential Phoretic Vector Use Among SympatricEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Global genomic diversity of the selfing nematodebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Metabolic state modulates risky foraging behavior via multiple branches of the insulin/IGF-1-like pathway in C. elegans.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Article
- Metabolic hubs in reproduction: The regulatory network of lipid droplets in gamete and embryo physiology (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2026Review
- The bacteria of a fig community.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Factors Governing the Cross-Species Virulence of Shiga Toxin-ProducingPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Mutational biases and selection in mitochondrial genomes: insights from a comparative analysis of natural and laboratory populations of Caenorhabditis elegans.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Article
- Allelic Variation at tRNA Genes in Three Nematode Species Indicates Mutation Load Despite Strong Purifying Selection.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Article
- The impact of rearing environment on C. elegans: phenotypic, transcriptomic and intergenerational responses to 3D enriched habitats.Biology open · 2026Article
210 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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2 authors.
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Abstract
The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has risen to the status of a top model organism for biological research in the last fifty years. Among laboratory animals, this tiny nematode is one of the simplest and easiest organisms to handle. And its life outside the laboratory is beginning to be unveiled. Like other model organisms, C. elegans has a boom-and-bust lifestyle. It feasts on ephemeral bacterial blooms in decomposing fruits and stems. After resource depletion, its young larvae enter a migratory diapause stage, called the dauer. Organisms known to be associated with C. elegans include migration vectors (such as snails, slugs and isopods) and pathogens (such as microsporidia, fungi, bacteria and viruses). By deepening our understanding of the natural history of C. elegans, we establish a broader context and improved tools for studying its biology.
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