The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has shed light on many aspects of eukaryotic
biology, including genetics, development, cell biology, and genomics. A major factor in the …

The comparatively simple Caenorhabditis elegans intestine fulfills many of the complex
functions of the mammalian digestive tract, liver, and fat tissues, while also having roles in …

Essential oils (EOs) have attracted increased interest for different applications such as food
preservatives, feed additives and ingredients in cosmetics. Due to their reported variable …

Males of Caenorhabditis elegans provide a crucial practical tool in the laboratory, but, as the
rarer and more finicky sex, have not enjoyed the same depth of research attention as …

The studies of cell fate and lineage specification are fundamental to our understanding of
the development of multicellular organisms. Caenorhabditis elegans has been one of the …

A set of unique sequences in bacterial genomes, responsible for protecting bacteria against
bacteriophages, has recently been used for the genetic manipulation of specific points in the …

Entomopathogenic nematodes of the genera Steinernema and Heterorhabditis, along with
their bacterial symbionts from the genera Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus, respectively, are …

Some species undergo programmed DNA elimination (PDE), whereby portions of the
genome are systematically destroyed in somatic cells. PDE has emerged independently in …

Background Nematodes are the most abundant and diverse metazoans on Earth, and are
known to significantly affect ecosystem functioning. A better understanding of their biology …

The transition of the sexual mode occurs widely in animal evolution. In Caenorhabditis
nematodes, androdioecy, a sexual polymorphism composed of males and hermaphrodites …