Nature Communications (Aug 2018)
Biology and genome of a newly discovered sibling species of Caenorhabditis elegans
- 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
Affiliations
- Natsumi Kanzaki
- Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
- Isheng J. Tsai
- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
- Ryusei Tanaka
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki
- Vicky L. Hunt
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki
- Dang Liu
- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
- Kenji Tsuyama
- Laboratory of Developmental Dynamics, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Yasunobu Maeda
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki
- Satoshi Namai
- Laboratory of Developmental Dynamics, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Ryohei Kumagai
- Laboratory of Developmental Dynamics, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Alan Tracey
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Nancy Holroyd
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Stephen R. Doyle
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Gavin C. Woodruff
- Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
- Kazunori Murase
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki
- Hiromi Kitazume
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki
- Cynthia Chai
- HHMI and Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech
- Allison Akagi
- HHMI and Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech
- Oishika Panda
- Boyce Thompson Institute, and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
- Huei-Mien Ke
- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
- Frank C. Schroeder
- Boyce Thompson Institute, and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
- John Wang
- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
- Matthew Berriman
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Paul W. Sternberg
- HHMI and Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech
- Asako Sugimoto
- Laboratory of Developmental Dynamics, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Taisei Kikuchi
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05712-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
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.
