WormBook in GENETICS

The last three chapters of WormBook in GENETICS were published earlier this year.  I want to express my gratitude to all of the authors, section editors and advisory board members for bringing this project to fruition, and to the Genetics Society of America and the editors and staff of GENETICS for all of their support.  I encourage everyone to take a look at the wonderful compendium of knowledge of the biology, genetics, genomics, and evolutionary biology of C. elegans resulting from this community effort. Like the classic Cold Spring Harbor C. elegans books and the original WormBook published under the WormBase aegis at Caltech, I am confident that this collection of reviews will remain valuable for decades to come, for trainees and experienced C. elegans biologists alike.

Even though WormBook is officially completed, the Editor in Chief of GENETICS, Howard Lipshitz, has agreed that future reviews on C. elegans will be linked to the WormBook tab on the GENETICS/OUP website. He also has appointed me as a Consulting Editor for the journal to provide advice to the Senior Editors of the ‘Perspectives & Reviews’ section on ways to add new reviews of interest to the worm community.

Best regards,

Iva Greenwald

New WormBook chapters about extracellular vesicles and the cuticle

Check out the two new chapters in WormBook, GENETICS: Extracellular vesicles by Juan Wang, Maureen Barr, and Ann Wehman and The Caenorhabditis elegans cuticle and precuticle: a model for studying dynamic apical extracellular matrices in vivo by Meera Sundaram and Nathalie Pujol.