Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

An international research team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute has uncovered the molecular mechanisms governing the ...

Like the X0 sex determination system, which shows up in our friends C. elegans the nematode and C. elegans the tarantula. This system only has one type of allosome, and biological sex is ...

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 ...

Results showed that exposure to BBPs led to an increase in germ cell death, DNA damage, and chromosome nondisjunction in C. elegans, a worm commonly used in experiments.

Exposure to benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP) leads to increased double-strand break formation and germline dysfunction in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLOS Genetics, 2024; 20 (10): e1011434 DOI: 10.1371 ...

"In C. elegans, TEBP-1 and TEBP-2 protect the chromosome ends." Now, these proteins, both in mammals and in C. elegans, need a way to bind to each other and then to bind to the chromosome so that ...

Study: C. elegans chromosome end protection proteins TEBP-1 and TEBP-2 adapt the Myb module to dimerize and bind telomeric DNA (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2316651121) (available when embargo lifts) ...

More information: Erik Toraason et al, Aging and sperm signals alter DNA break formation and repair in the C. elegans germline, PLOS Genetics (2022). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010282 ...

The research took the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans (made famous across much research and in causing some sizable beef on Twitter) and stripped the chromosomes contained in their sperm of a ...