"Caenorhabditis elegans" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A species of nematode that is widely used in biological, biochemical, and genetic studies.
| Descriptor ID |
D017173
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.500.294.400.875.660.250.250
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Caenorhabditis elegans" by people in this website by year, and whether "Caenorhabditis elegans" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2009 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2012 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Caenorhabditis elegans" by people in Profiles.
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Sweety UH, Narayan M. Molecular Basis by Which PVC Nanoplastics Elicit Neurotoxic Outcomes. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2025 Aug 20; 16(16):3215-3224.
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Zhang L, Stauffer W, Liu C, Shao H, Abuzahriyeh N, Jiang R, Zwicker D, Liu X, Yao X, Dernburg AF. Crossover patterning through condensation and coarsening of pro-crossover factors. Nat Cell Biol. 2025 Jul; 27(7):1161-1174.
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Karim A, Yadav A, Sweety UH, Kumar J, Delgado SA, Hernandez JA, White JC, Vukovic L, Narayan M. Interfacial Interactions between Nanoplastics and Biological Systems: toward an Atomic and Molecular Understanding of Plastics-Driven Biological Dyshomeostasis. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2024 May 22; 16(20):25740-25756.
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Skeens A, Siriwardhana C, Massinople SE, Wunder MM, Ellis ZL, Keith KM, Girman T, Frey SL, Legleiter J. The polyglutamine domain is the primary driver of seeding in huntingtin aggregation. PLoS One. 2024; 19(3):e0298323.
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Li D, Huang S, Chai Y, Zhao R, Gong J, Zhang QC, Ou G, Wen W. A paternal protein facilitates sperm RNA delivery to regulate zygotic development. Sci China Life Sci. 2023 10; 66(10):2342-2353.
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Donlon TA, Morris BJ, Masaki KH, Chen R, Davy PMC, Kallianpur KJ, Nakagawa K, Owens JB, Willcox DC, Allsopp RC, Willcox BJ. FOXO3, a Resilience Gene: Impact on Lifespan, Healthspan, and Deathspan. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2022 08 12; 77(8):1479-1484.
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Keating SE, Greenbaum E, Johnson JD, Gamble T. Identification of a cis-sex chromosome transition in banded geckos (Coleonyx, Eublepharidae, Gekkota). J Evol Biol. 2022 12; 35(12):1675-1682.
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Wang X, Zeng C, Liao S, Zhu Z, Zhang J, Tu X, Yao X, Feng X, Guang S, Xu C. Molecular basis for PICS-mediated piRNA biogenesis and cell division. Nat Commun. 2021 09 22; 12(1):5595.
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Li D, Liu Y, Yi P, Zhu Z, Li W, Zhang QC, Li JB, Ou G. RNA editing restricts hyperactive ciliary kinases. Science. 2021 08 27; 373(6558):984-991.
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Fernando LM, Adeel S, Basar MA, Allen AK, Duttaroy A. In-gel SOD assay reveals SOD-2 is the single active, water-soluble SOD enzyme in C. elegans. Free Radic Res. 2021 Jun; 55(6):619-624.