Surprisingly, C. elegans is one of the rare species that allows foreign DNA, completely devoid of any C. elegans DNA sequence, to fuse into a big, megabase-sized artificial chromosome. Simply put ...

And there are other questions: in C. elegans, and also C. remanei, there are only four kinds of ZIM proteins that serve to initiate the pairing of six different chromosomes (in C. briggsae, only ...

How Worms Protect Their Chromosomes: Thereby Hangs A Surprising Tail Date: March 10, 2008 Source: Salk Institute Summary: Scientists have discovered that the roundworm C. elegans constructs the ...

In human chromosomes, cohesin is always protected in the same region, but in the nematode worm C elegans, chromosomes have to figure it out from scratch every time they divide.

A team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has discovered that the roundworm C. elegans constructs the protective tips of its chromosomes -- known as telomeres -- with a ...

In these C. elegans embryos, only chromosomes inherited from the egg are stained green. All chromosomes are stained red for DNA. By distinguishing between egg- and sperm-inherited chromosomes, ...

If chromosome ends fuse, or if they fuse with other chromosomes, the cell that houses these chromosomes dies. ... "In C. elegans, TEBP-1 and TEBP-2 protect the chromosome ends." ...

Most C. elegans are hermaphrodites capable of self-fertilization, typically producing hermaphroditic offspring with two X chromosomes. Males, with their single X chromosome, arise due to errors during ...

In these C. elegans embryos, only chromosomes inherited from the egg are stained green. All chromosomes are stained red for DNA. By distinguishing between egg- and sperm-inherited chromosomes, ...

C. elegans egg cell undergoing meiosis. Yolk granules (purple) are being pulled to the center of the cell, while the microtubule spindle (red) holding the separating chromosomes, is being pushed ...