Check out the latest chapter in WormBook, GENETICS: Males, Outcrossing, and Sexual Selection in Caenorhabditis Nematodes by Asher D. Cutter, Levi T. Morran and Patrick C. Phillips.
New chapter in WormBook (GENETICS): The Caenorhabditis elegans Transgenic Toolbox
Check out this useful chapter ‘The Caenorhabditis elegans Transgenic Toolbox‘ by Jeremy Nance and Christian Frøkjær-Jensen in the latest issue of WormBook, GENETICS.
New VC2010 and improved CB4856 genomes published
The VC2010 genome assembly has just been published in Genome Research as an open-access article. This assembly is largely derived from a completely isogenic VC2010-derived strain, PD1074, that is now available from the CGC.
In related news, Junho Lee and his lab have simultaneously published an open-access article on their substantially improved genome assembly for Hawaiian C. elegans (CB4856).
New chapter in WormBook, GENETICS, on sensing of physical stimuli in C. elegans
Check out the new chapter in WormBook, GENETICS–‘How Caenorhabditis elegans Senses Mechanical Stress, Temperature, and Other Physical Stimuli‘ by Miriam Goodman and Piali Sengupta.
Paper of Interest: Identification of functional long non-coding RNAs in C. elegans.
This paper predicts 143 new multi-exonic lncRNA loci in C. elegans, along with ~3,000 possible new single-exon lncRNA loci.