Caenorhabditis elegans
BioProject PRJNA13758 | Data Source WormBase | Taxonomy ID 6239
About Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living, transparent nematode, about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments. In 1963, Sydney Brenner proposed research into C. elegans primarily in the area of neuronal development. In 1974, he began research into the molecular and developmental biology of C. elegans, which has since been extensively used as a model organism. C. elegans was the first multicellular organism to have its whole genome sequenced, and as of 2012, the only organism to have its connectome (neuronal "wiring diagram") completed.
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Assembly Statistics
Assembly | WBcel235, GCA_000002985.3, Dec 2012 |
Strain | N2 |
Database Version | WBPS19 |
Genome Size | 100,286,401 |
Data Source | WormBase |
Annotation Version | WS290 |
Gene counts
Coding genes | 19,984 |
Non coding genes | 24,812 |
Small non coding genes | 24,518 |
Long non coding genes | 294 |
Pseudogenes | 2,131 |
Gene transcripts | 60,140 |
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