Species: Caenorhabditis elegans

Parent taxon: Caenorhabditis

NCBI Taxonomy Page: NCBI txid:6239

Description: free-living bacteriovore

BClade: Bclade V

Interested people: John Sulston, Sydney Brenner

Genome size: 100.2 Mb

Genome size source: Sulston and Brenner PMID: 4858229

Genome AT%: 64 %

Genome AT% source: genome sequence

Genome Publications: PMID:1538779 PMID:9851916

Transcriptome Publications: PMID:1302005 PMID:1302004 PMID:8650370

Strain Sequencing Status

This section has sequencing information about strains of this species.

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Strain Genome Sequencing:

Strain	Status	Contact	Funder	Institution	Sequencing Centre	Plan/Status	URL	Reference Strain
Caenorhabditis elegans N2	published		Wellcome Trust NIH		Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute The Genome Institute at Washington University	The genome was sequenced from a combination of mapped cosmids and fosmids, mapped YACs and a few long-range PCR products, using Sanger dideoxy technology.The genome is essentially complete (telomere to telomere).	http://www.wormbase.org/db/gb2/gbrowse/c_elegans/ ftp://ftp.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/species/c_elegans/	1X

Strain Transcriptome Sequencing:

Strain	Status	Contact	Funder	Institution	Sequencing Centre	Plan/Status	URL	Reference Strain
Caenorhabditis elegans N2	published						http://www.wormbase.org/	1X

Phylogenetic context