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+[[!meta title="Dramatic evolution of body length due to postembryonic changes in cell size in a newly discovered close relative of Caenorhabditis elegans"]]
+[[!tag nematode]]
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+Evol Lett. 2018 Jul 16;2(4):427-441. doi:10.1002/evl3.67
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+Woodruff GC, Willis JH, Phillips PC.
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+Dramatic evolution of body length due to postembryonic changes in cell size in a newly discovered close relative of Caenorhabditis elegans
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+[[!pmid 30283693 desc="“This difference in size is not attributable to differences in germ line chromosome number or the number of somatic cells.”"]]
and is specialised on both its prefered fig and wasp [[(Woodruff and
Phillips, 2018)|biblio/30129423]].
+ - _C. inopinata_ is larger than _C. elegans_ but this difference is not
+ explained by a different chromosome number or a higher number of cells
+ ([[Woodruff, Willis and Phillips, 2018|biblio/30283693]]).
+
- 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