"Caenorhabditis elegans" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of nematode that is widely used in biological, biochemical, and genetic studies.
| Descriptor ID |
D017173
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.500.294.400.875.660.250.250
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Caenorhabditis elegans" by people in Profiles.
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CeleST: computer vision software for quantitative analysis of C. elegans swim behavior reveals novel features of locomotion. PLoS Comput Biol. 2014 Jul; 10(7):e1003702.
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npr-1 Regulates foraging and dispersal strategies in Caenorhabditis elegans. Curr Biol. 2008 Nov 11; 18(21):1694-9.
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The simplicity of metazoan cell lineages. Nature. 2005 Jan 13; 433(7022):152-6.