"nematode" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a scientific term used to refer to any member of the phylum Nematoda, which includes parasitic, free-living, and commensal worms. Example sentence: Scientists identified that the plant belonged to the species infected by the nematode Meloidogyne incognita.
For C. elegans is, in fact, a worm.No ordinary, garden-variety worm, of course (though C. elegans, a 1mm-long nematode, does live in the soil).
Given that their principal job is regulating the activities of other genes, this makes sense.Even more intriguingly, studies of lincRNA genes from species as diverse as people, fruit flies and nematode worms, have found they differ far more from one species to another than do protein-coding genes.
They looked at nine other primate species, and also 12 types of fruit fly and four nematode worms.
The money will be put towards the creation of the world's most detailed virtual life form an accurate, open-source, digital clone of a critter called Caenorhabditis elegans, a 1mm-long nematode that lives in the soils of the world's temperate regions.In this section Computer worms Spawned in Davy Jones's locker Divided we stand Call it quits ReprintsC.
They have 1 1/2 times as many genes as a nematode worm, and twice as many as a fruit fly (the two other animals that have had their genomes completely sequenced).
He tested his idea in a tiny nematode worm called Caenorhabditis elegans and, in 1994, published a paper showing how touch-receptor proteins are distributed around this worm.
But that is much closer to humans than the nematode worms and fruit flies which were the subjects of previous successful experiments on drug-induced life extension.No pain, no gainOne reason why primates have not been the subject of anti-ageing studies until now is that they live so long anyway.
In 1972 Sydney Brenner, a biologist then at Cambridge University, decided to work out the connections of every cell in the nervous system of a small nematode worm called C. elegans.
So a technique invented recently by Frederick Ausubel of Harvard University and his colleagues, which should help to speed things up, is welcome.Dr Ausubel's method, the details of which have just been published in ACS Chemical Biology, employs nematode worms of a species called C. elegans as its sacrificial victims.
These might provide the necessary biochemical link between starving and living longer.An elixir of life?Boosting the activity of sirtuins in yeast, nematode worms and fruitflies (three rapidly reproducing stalwarts of biological laboratories) does indeed result in longer lifespans.
The reason that many people were sceptical was that it was little larger than the figures previously arrived at for nematode worms (19,000) and fruitflies (13,600).
