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SUBMITTER: Kanzaki N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6086898 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180810 1
A 'sibling' species of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans has long been sought for use in comparative analyses that would enable deep evolutionary interpretations of biological phenomena. Here, we describe the first sibling species of C. elegans, C. inopinata n. sp., isolated from fig syconia in Okinawa, Japan. We investigate the morphology, developmental processes and behaviour of C. inopinata, which differ significantly from those of C. elegans. The 123-Mb C. inopinata genome was sequen ...[more]