The C. elegans Genome Project , maintained by the Sanger Centre at Cambridge and the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, provides access to completed C. elegans sequences and preliminary sequence data. The site includes links and access to the 1995 and 1997 International Worm Meeting abstracts. The browsable and searchable site integrates a wide range of information, including DNA sequences, expression patterns, and cell groups. The resource includes lists of authors and publications. The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center at the University of Minnesota maintains stocks of over 3,000 C. elegans strains.
Users can browse and search the gopher index and order strains via email.
The site also maintains an updated C. elegans bibliography. To find additional information or view current C. elegans news, try the the moderated newsgoup bionet.celegans . The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster , because it lends itself so easily to classic breeding experiments, has been used as a genetic system since early in the 20th century. In the 1980s researchers began characterizing the genes that corresponded with mutant phenotypes and discovered homeobox genes, which are involved in developmental patterning and have since been identified in other species, including vertebrates. Shotgun sequencing of the human genome.