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A Caenorhabditis elegans Nutritional-status Based Copper Aversion Assay
Published on: July 26, 2017
The nutritional requirements of Caenorhabditis elegans
Aleksandra Zečić1, Ineke Dhondt1, Bart P Braeckman1
1Department of Biology, Laboratory of Aging Physiology and Molecular Evolution, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Abstract:
Animals require sufficient intake of a variety of nutrients to support their development, somatic maintenance and reproduction. An adequate diet provides cell building blocks, chemical energy to drive cellular processes and essential nutrients that cannot be synthesised by the animal, or at least not in the required amounts. Dietary requirements of nematodes, including Caenorhabditis elegans have been extensively studied with the major aim to develop a chemically defined axenic medium that would support their growth and reproduction. At the same time, these studies helped elucidating important aspects of nutrition-related biochemistry and metabolism as well as the establishment of C. elegans as a powerful model in studying evolutionarily conserved pathways, and the influence of the diet on health.
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