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]
| Caenorhabditis inopinata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Family: | Rhabditidae |
| Genus: | Caenorhabditis |
| Species: | C. inopinata
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| Binomial name | |
| Caenorhabditis inopinata N. Kanzaki, 2013
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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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ LIST_OF_AVAILABLE_CAENORHABDITIS_SPECIES_and_the_state_of_their_genome_projects at evolution.wormbase.org
- ^ 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
External links
edit- Caenorhabditis inopinata sequencing project at NCBI
- Caenorhabditis inopinata sequencing project at trace.ddbj.nig.ac.jp
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