ArticleEcology and evolution2015
Ten years of life in compost: temporal and spatial variation of North German Caenorhabditis elegans populations.
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- The Interaction Between the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and Its Coexisting Fungal Microbiome Member Barnettozyma californica.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- Life history in Caenorhabditis elegans: from molecular genetics to evolutionary ecology.Genetics · 2024Review
- Microbial community succession of cow manure and tobacco straw composting.Frontiers in microbiomes · 2024Article
- The intricate triangular interaction between protective microbe, pathogen and host determines fitness of the metaorganism.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Reproductive consequences of transient pathogen exposure across host genotypes and generations.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Isolating Caenorhabditis elegans from the Natural Habitat.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Preconditioning With Natural Microbiota StrainFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Article
- Natural variation in a glucuronosyltransferase modulates propionate sensitivity in a C. elegans propionic acidemia model.PLoS genetics · 2020Article
- Oxidative Catabolism of (+)-Pinoresinol Is Initiated by an Unusual Flavocytochrome Encoded by Translationally Coupled Genes within a Cluster of (+)-Pinoresinol-Coinduced Genes inApplied and environmental microbiology · 2020Article
- Shorter life and reduced fecundity can increase colony fitness in virtual Caenorhabditis elegans.Aging cell · 2020Article
- Deep sampling of HawaiianeLife · 2019Article
- A multi-parent recombinant inbred line population of C. elegans allows identification of novel QTLs for complex life history traits.BMC biology · 2019Article
- Does senescence promote fitness in Caenorhabditis elegans by causing death?Ageing research reviews · 2019Review
- Microbial Community Succession and Response to Environmental Variables During Cow Manure and Corn Straw Composting.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- Ephemeral-habitat colonization and neotropical species richness of Caenorhabditis nematodes.BMC ecology · 2017Article
- Reimagining pheromone signalling in the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.PLoS genetics · 2017Article
- Pheromone modulates two phenotypically plastic traits - adult reproduction and larval diapause - in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.BMC evolutionary biology · 2017Article
- The Natural Biotic Environment ofGenetics · 2017Review
- The native microbiome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans: gateway to a new host-microbiome model.BMC biology · 2016Article
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Abstract
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a central laboratory model system in almost all biological disciplines, yet its natural life history and population biology are largely unexplored. Such information is essential for in-depth understanding of the nematode's biology because its natural ecology provides the context, in which its traits and the underlying molecular mechanisms evolved. We characterized natural phenotypic and genetic variation among North German C. elegans isolates. We used the unique opportunity to compare samples collected 10 years apart from the same compost heap and additionally included recent samples for this and a second site, collected across a 1.5-year period. Our analysis revealed significant population genetic differentiation between locations, across the 10-year time period, but for only one location a trend across the shorter time frame. Significant variation was similarly found for phenotypic traits of likely importance in nature, such as choice behavior and population growth in the presence of pathogens or naturally associated bacteria. Phenotypic variation was significantly influenced by C. elegans genotype, time of isolation, and sampling site. The here studied C. elegans isolates may provide a valuable, genetically variable resource for future dissection of naturally relevant gene functions.
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