Misplaced Pages

Caenorhabditis guadeloupensis

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Species of roundworm

Caenorhabditis guadeloupensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Family: Rhabditidae
Genus: Caenorhabditis
Species: C. guadeloupensis
Binomial name
Caenorhabditis guadeloupensis
Félix, Marie-Anne; Braendle, Christian; Cutter, Asher D., 2014
Synonyms

Caenorhabditis sp. 20

Caenorhabditis guadeloupensis is a species of nematodes, in the same genus as the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. This species was collected from rotten Heliconia flowers on the Soufrière Forest trail, in Guadeloupe, France.

This species is at the basis of the 'Drosophilae' supergroup in phylogenetic studies.

References

  1. Félix, Marie-Anne; Braendle, Christian; Cutter, Asher D. (April 11, 2014). "A Streamlined System for Species Diagnosis in Caenorhabditis (Nematoda: Rhabditidae) with Name Designations for 15 Distinct Biological Species". PLOS ONE. 9: e94723, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094723
Taxon identifiers
Caenorhabditis guadeloupensis


Stub icon

This Rhabditida roundworm-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: