Caenorhabditis elegans

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Navigazione: Rhabditomorpha
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Cycloneuralia Cladus: Nematoida Phylum: Nematoda Classis: Chromadorea Ordo: Rhabditida Subordo: Rhabditina Infraordo: Rhabditomorpha

Familia: Rhabditidae
Genus: Caenorhabditis
Species: Caenorhabditis elegans
Subspecies: Caenorhabditis elegans var. Bergerac - Caenorhabditis elegans var. Bristol
Strains: Caenorhabditis elegans var. Bergerac BO - Caenorhabditis elegans var. Bristol N2

Nome

Caenorhabditis elegans (Maupas, 1900) Dougherty, 1955

Sinonimi

Rhabditides elegans Maupas, 1900
Rhabditides (Caenorhabditis) elegans Osche, 1952

Nomi comuni

العربية: ربداء رشيقة
čeština: Háďátko obecné
English: Roundworm
eesti: Varbuss
한국어: 꼬마 선충
ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche: سازاڭسىمان مەددە
中文: 秀麗隱桿線蟲

Distribuzione

Cosmopolita, rare in the tropics.

Natural habitat:
Free living. Can be found in compost heaps. Feeds on bacteria.

Many strains adapted to life on Petri dishes in labs exist.

Riferimenti

Maupas, É. 1900. Modes et formes de reproduction des nématodes. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 8: 463–624.
Nigon V., 1949. Les modalités de la reproduction et le déterminisme du sexe chez quelques nématodes libres. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Zoologie et Biologie Animale 11: 1–132.
Osche G., 1952. Systematik und Phylogenie der Gattung Rhabditis (Nematoda). Zoologische Jahrbücher (Abt. 1), 81, pages 190–280.
Dion, M. & Brun J.L. 1971. Cartographie génique du Nématode libre Caenorhabditis elegans, Maupas 1900, variété Bergerac. Molecular and General Genetics MGG 112(2): 133–151. DOI: 10.1007/BF00267491.
Harris L.J. & Rose A.M., 1989. Structural analysis of Tc1 elements in Caenorhabditis elegans var. Bristol (strain N2). Plasmid 22(1): 10–21. DOI: 10.1016/0147-619x(89)90031-0, PMID: 2550981.