Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans, is a small roundworm (nematode) usually found in the soil in temperate climates all around the world. It feeds on microorganisms like bacteria and can be most ...

The spatial organisation of the C. elegans brain is modular ... or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.

C. elegans is ideally suited to investigate these questions. In the C. elegans nervous system, all 302 neurons are generated by asymmetric cell division. Since the entire cell lineage is known, the ...

What you need is a nervous system flexible enough to cope ... to muster an adaptive response to a deadly infection. When C. elegans worms fed on infectious Pseudomonas bacteria that made them ...