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NU 2022-057 Inventor Erik C. Andersen Description What is C. elegans?
Caenorhabditis elegans is a non-parasitic nematode roundworm that lives in rotting material and eats bacteria and fungi. Because this species grows easily and quickly in the laboratory, it is a powerful model to learn about human development, complex behaviors, and evolutionary processes. For more information about C. elegans see this wikipedia page.
Citations Daniel E. Cook, Stefan Zdraljevic, Joshua P. Roberts, Erik C. Andersen, CeNDR, the Caenorhabditis elegans natural diversity resource, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 45, Issue D1, January 2017, Pages D650–D657, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkw893
Please reference this article if you use strains, data, and/or mappings from CeNDR.
Strain Sets
Pre-defined sets of strains can be ordered below.
The divergent set includes 12 genotypically different strains and can be used to determine broad-sense heritability after repeated independent measures of your favorite phenotype. We recommend starting with the divergent set.
Sets 1-8 each contain 46-48 strains that should be assayed for genetic mapping experiments. We recommend using a single set of 48 strains. After you have scored and optimized your quantitative trait, additional sets can be assayed to increase statistical power for association mapping.
Purchase Options
SETS: Divergent Number of Strains: 12 Strains: CB4856, CX11314, DL238, ED3017, EG4725, JT11398, JU258, JU775, LKC34, MY16, MY23, N2 Price $390.00
Mapping Set #1 Number of Strains: 48 Strains: BRC20067, CX11271, CX11276, CX11285, DL200, DL226, ECA246, ECA251, ECA36, ED3040, ED3048, ED3049, ED3052, JU1088, JU1172, JU1213, JU1242, JU1409, JU1440, JU1568, JU1581, JU2007, JU2466, JU2519, JU311, JU323, JU346, JU360, JU440, JU774, JU830, KR314, MY1, NIC1, NIC199, NIC2, NIC252, NIC256, NIC260, NIC261, NIC274, NIC275, NIC277, NIC3, PB303, QG2075, QX1794, WN2002 Price: $1,445.00