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Caenorhabditis elegans as a genetic model organism

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The review presents C. elegans as a genetic model organism used to investigate developmental biology, neurobiology, and other areas of modern biology. Its value comes from organismal tractability together with single-cell-level analysis in a live animal.

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This approach requires working with the nematode C. elegans and leveraging its genetic tractability and annotated genome. The abstract also implies use of common technical approaches for anatomy and genetics, but does not specify protocols.

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What problem it solves

It provides an experimentally accessible whole-animal system for addressing biological questions genetically. The review emphasizes that it supports both organism-level and single identified cell-level studies.

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Alternatives

No explicit alternative model organisms are named in the abstract.

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Evidence Snippets

Sydney Brenner had the foresight to develop the nematode (round worm) Caenorhabditis elegans as a genetic model for understanding questions of developmental biology and neurobiology.

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Claim 1review summarysupports2015Source 1DOI PubMed

A key strength of the Caenorhabditis elegans system is the ability to address biological problems genetically using both forward and reverse genetics at the whole-organism level and at the level of single identified cells.

Claim 2review summarysupports2015Source 1DOI PubMed

Caenorhabditis elegans is an outstanding experimental system because of its small size, rapid life cycle, transparency, and well-annotated genome.

Claim 3review summarysupports2015Source 1DOI PubMed

Caenorhabditis elegans is useful not only in research laboratories but also in the classroom because students can observe what is happening inside live cells and tissues.

Claim 4review summarysupports2015Source 1DOI PubMed

Research on Caenorhabditis elegans has expanded beyond developmental biology and neurobiology to include studies of eukaryotic cell functions and interactions, host-parasite interactions, evolution, and processes relevant to human disease.