RE: Shuttle's Worms Found Thriving in Debris

["William King" <wking at micromuse_com>]

They are to developmental biologists what drosophila are/where for
geneticists. the whole developmental process from single cell to adult worm
has been carefully/painstakingly mapped out,  a huge amount of research is
done on them.   They are a good model to study developmental biology because
they have a short life span, can be easily cultured, they are not too
simple, i.e they have neural cells, intestine, etc... not sure of the exact
details but they have many organs that could be roughly compared to organs
that we have.   It is assumed/hoped that some of the genes that control
development of a nervous system, for example, in these worms would be
roughly analogous to the genes that control development of our own nervous
system.

William King,
London, UK.

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Sent: 02 May 2003 18:18
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Subject: Shuttle's Worms Found Thriving in Debris


Does anyone know what these worms are?  C. elegans
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030428/shuttleworm.html
They seem to be very durable, they survived the shuttle crash.

Drummond Howard
Gaithersburg, Maryland




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