Biology and genome of a newly discovered sibling species of Caenorhabditis elegans

Caenorhabditis nematodes are important model organisms. Here, the authors report the biology and genome of Caenorhabditis inopinata, a first sibling species of C. elegans, and develop genetic and molecular techniques for C. inopinata.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Natsumi Kanzaki, Isheng J. Tsai, Ryusei Tanaka, Vicky L. Hunt, Dang Liu, Kenji Tsuyama, Yasunobu Maeda, Satoshi Namai, Ryohei Kumagai, Alan Tracey, Nancy Holroyd, Stephen R. Doyle, Gavin C. Woodruff, Kazunori Murase, Hiromi Kitazume, Cynthia Chai, Allison Akagi, Oishika Panda, Huei-Mien Ke, Frank C. Schroeder, John Wang, Matthew Berriman, Paul W. Sternberg, Asako Sugimoto, Taisei Kikuchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05712-5