From: Charles Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 06:17:48 +0000 (+0900) Subject: inopinata X-Git-Url: https://source.charles.plessy.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9d8e8c2a89f46fc76040cf6945df90684d0474b3;p=setup%2F.git inopinata --- diff --git a/biblio/30866802.mdwn b/biblio/30866802.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c2f32431 --- /dev/null +++ b/biblio/30866802.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +[[!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.”"]] diff --git a/tags/nematode.mdwn b/tags/nematode.mdwn index ff6352d9..38b124d9 100644 --- a/tags/nematode.mdwn +++ b/tags/nematode.mdwn @@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ 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