One of the first successes of its use resulted from the study of the unc-54 gene encoding for a myosin heavy chain.
One of the first successes of its use resulted from the study of the unc-54 gene encoding for a myosin heavy chain. Its Bergerac strain was found to exhibit frequent spontaneous mutation due to the transposition of the Tc1 transposon, and of the 671 cells generated by its emryonic lineage, 113 undergo programmed cell death, so that its larva possesses 558 cells. Capable of reproducing hermaphroditically as well as of crossing hermaphrodites with males, its 302-cell nervous system was mapped completely in 1986 by White, Southgate, Thomson, and Brenner. For ten points, identify this model organism whose genome of about 100 million base pairs was completely mapped by 2002, a nematode about 1 millimeter in length.
One of the first successes of its use resulted from the study of the unc-54 gene encoding for a myosin heavy chain.
{C}aenorhabditis {elegans}