🪱Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans ofta förkortat C. elegans är en cirka 1 mm kort rundmask. Den används framför allt som modellorganism vid molekylärbiologisk forskning, och är en av de organismer vars hela genom är kartlagt. Genomet är ungefär 100 Mb långt och innehåller omkring 20100 gener.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Caenorhabditis elegans yet.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 0.16 years
Everything we know about the Caenorhabditis elegans
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Maximum lifespan0.16 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Not recorded for Caenorhabditis elegans yet: body mass, body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumNematoda
- ›classChromadorea
- ›orderRhabditida
- ›familyRhabditidae
- ›genusCaenorhabditis
- ›speciesCaenorhabditis elegans
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumRoundworms · Nematoda
- classChromadorea
- genusCaenorhabditis
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