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+[[!meta title="A large close relative of C. elegans is slow-developing but not long-lived."]]
+[[!tag nematode]]
+
+Woodruff GC, Johnson E, Phillips PC.
+
+BMC Evol Biol. 2019 Mar 11;19(1):74. doi:10.1186/s12862-019-1388-1
+
+A large close relative of C. elegans is slow-developing but not long-lived.
+
+[[!pmid 30866802 desc="“C. inopinata females were longer-lived than wild-type
+C. elegans hermaphrodites at 25°C, with a median total lifespan that was four
+days higher [...] However, C. inopinata females were only marginally longer
+lived than C. elegans (fog-2) pseudo-females.”"]]
explained by a different chromosome number or a higher number of cells
([[Woodruff, Willis and Phillips, 2018|biblio/30283693]]).
+ - _C. inopinata_ appears to have a longer life span that _C. elegans_, but
+ this can be explained by the cost of reproduction, as virgin pseudo-female
+ _C. elegans_ also have a longer life span ([[Woodruff, Johnson and Phillips PC,
+ 2019|biblio/30866802]]).
+
- The _C. inopinata_ genome is ~123 Mb and contains active transposons that
may explain the increased genome size compared with _C. elegans_.
Structural changes between both species are mainly intra-chromosomal ([[Kanzaki