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Basic Caenorhabditis elegans Methods: Synchronization and Observation
Published on: June 10, 2012
Body size change in various nematodes depending on bacterial food, sex and growth temperature
Shuhei So1, Yohei Garan, Kohji Miyahara
1Department of Applied Life Science; Sojo University; Ikeda, Kumamoto, Japan.
Worm
|September 24, 2013
Abstract:
We previously reported significant body size change in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, depending on the food strain of E. coli. Here, we examined this body size change in 11 other nematode species as well, and found that it is common to most of these nematodes. Furthermore, this food-dependent body size change is influenced by sex and growth temperature.

