What phylum is Caenorhabditis elegans?

Caenorhabditis elegans (/ˌsiːnoʊræbˈdaɪtəs ˈɛləɡæns/) is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments….

Caenorhabditis elegans
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Chromadorea
Order:	Rhabditida

What type of organism is Caenorhabditis elegans?

nematode worm
Caenorhabditis elegans is a species of nematode worm and is frequently chosen as a model organism to study human diseases.

What is the common name of Caenorhabditis elegans?

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Mnemonic i	CAEEL
Common name i	–
Synonym i	–
Other names i	›Caenorhabditis elegans (Maupas, 1900) ›Rhabditis elegans ›Rhabditis elegans Maupas, 1900
Rank i	SPECIES

Why is Caenorhabditis elegans important to biology?

Caenorhabditis elegans has served as an important model organism during the past decades. The defined developmental lineage and dynamic germline containing spatially resolved mitotic and meiotic cell divisions make the nematode a formidable experimental system for studying genome stability and DNA-repair mechanisms.

Is C. elegans a protist?

C. elegans is of particular interest in this context, because its genome contains 15 phylogenetically diverse lysozyme genes, the largest number recorded to date [10]. C. elegans lysozymes are of two distinct types, the invertebrate- (ilys genes) and the protist- or Entamoeba-type (lys genes).

Where can Caenorhabditis elegans be found?

C. elegans is most easily isolated from rotting fruits and stems, compost, and some invertebrates (see below Macroscopic Invertebrates as Possible Vectors or Hosts).

How does Caenorhabditis elegans reproduce?

The hermaphroditic nematode worms of C. elegans can reproduce either by self-fertilization or by mating with males. A self-fertilizing hermaphrodite can produce around 300 offspring before sperm depletion; an outcrossed hermaphrodite supplied with plentiful virile males can produce as many as 1,400 offspring.

Who discovered Caenorhabditis elegans?

Emile Maupas
A key figure of this phase is Emile Maupas, a professional archivist and librarian living in Algiers and working on biology as a personal interest (see Appendix 3, Section 18.1). He was the first to isolate and name Rhabditis elegans (now Caenorhabditis elegans) (Maupas, 1900).

Are C. elegans mammals?

These and other model organisms have played key roles in human disease gene discovery. In the current review, we focus on the use of C. elegans as a non-mammalian model for human disease gene discovery.

What is C. elegans and what properties make it an appropriate model organism?

Mutant? forms of C. elegans, where specific genes are altered, can be produced very easily to closely study gene function. Many of the genes in the C. elegans genome have functional counterparts in humans which makes it an extremely useful model for human diseases.

Which class belongs to phylum Annelida?

Phylum Annelida contains the class Polychaeta (the polychaetes) and the class Oligochaeta (the earthworms, leeches and their relatives).

What phylum are leeches?

AnnelidLeech / Phylum
Classically, oligochaetes and leeches are placed within the phylum Annelida either in the order Hirudinea, class Clitellata, or in the class Euhirudinea.