Caenorhabditis inopinata

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Caenorhabditis inopinata
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Family: Rhabditidae
Genus: Caenorhabditis
Species:
C. inopinata
Binomial name
Caenorhabditis inopinata
N. Kanzaki, 2013

Caenorhabditis inopinata - prior to 2017 referred to as C. sp. 34. - is a sister species to C. elegans (it is classified in the 'Elegans' supergroup).[1]

The specific epithet comes from the Latin inopinus (“unexpected”).

This gonochoristic (male-female) species was isolated from figs (Ficus septica) and fig wasps in Ishigaki Island, in Japan. It was recovered by N. Kanzaki in 2013.[2] It is a larger species than C. elegans.

Its genome is being sequenced at the University of Miyazaki.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Woodruff, Gavin C.; Phillips, Patrick C. (2017-08-26). "Dramatic evolution of body length due to post-embryonic changes in cell size in a newly discovered close relative of C. elegans". bioRxiv 10.1101/181107.
  2. ^ LIST_OF_AVAILABLE_CAENORHABDITIS_SPECIES_and_the_state_of_their_genome_projects at evolution.wormbase.org
  3. ^ Kikuchi T., Tsai I., Berriman M., Sugimoto A. and Kanzaki N. Evolutionary insights from the genome, morphology and natural history of Caenorhabditis inopinata, the sister species of C. elegans

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