Caenorhabditis plicata

Caenorhabditis plicata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Chromadorea
Order:	Rhabditida
Family:	Rhabditidae
Genus:	Caenorhabditis
Species:	C. plicata
Binomial name
	Caenorhabditis plicata; (Völk, 1950)
Synonyms
	Rhabditis plicata Volk, 1950

Short description: Species of worm

Caenorhabditis plicata is a species of nematodes in the genus Caenorhabditis. It was described on carrion in Germany and is phoretic on carrion visiting beetles.

Its genome was sequenced by the University of Edinburgh.

C. plicata groups with C. sp. 1 (Caenorhabditis monodelphis) outside either the 'Drosophilae' or the 'Elegans' supergroups in phylogenetic studies.^[2]

References

↑ Völk J. Die Nematoden der Regenwürmer und aasbesuchenden Käfer. Zool. b. Syst. (1950);79, pages 1–70
↑ A Streamlined System for Species Diagnosis in Caenorhabditis (Nematoda: Rhabditidae) with Name Designations for 15 Distinct Biological Species. Marie-Anne Félix, Christian Braendle and Asher D. Cutter, PLOS, April 11, 2014, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094723

External links

Caenorhabditis plicata at fauna-eu.org

Wikidata ☰ Q48965557 entry

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[1] Völk J. Die Nematoden der Regenwürmer und aasbesuchenden Käfer. Zool. b. Syst. (1950);79, pages 1–70

[2] A Streamlined System for Species Diagnosis in Caenorhabditis (Nematoda: Rhabditidae) with Name Designations for 15 Distinct Biological Species. Marie-Anne Félix, Christian Braendle and Asher D. Cutter, PLOS, April 11, 2014, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094723

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Caenorhabditis plicata

Topic: Biology

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