"Caenorhabditis elegans" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A species of nematode that is widely used in biological, biochemical, and genetic studies.
MeSH Number(s)
B01.050.500.500.294.700.700.660.250.250
Concept/Terms
Caenorhabditis elegans- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Caenorhabditis elegan
- elegan, Caenorhabditis
- elegans, Caenorhabditis
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Caenorhabditis elegans" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Caenorhabditis elegans" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1993 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1994 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 1995 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 1996 | 10 | 2 | 12 |
| 1997 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 1998 | 8 | 14 | 22 |
| 1999 | 12 | 14 | 26 |
| 2000 | 18 | 5 | 23 |
| 2001 | 13 | 10 | 23 |
| 2002 | 27 | 11 | 38 |
| 2003 | 24 | 21 | 45 |
| 2004 | 30 | 18 | 48 |
| 2005 | 29 | 10 | 39 |
| 2006 | 25 | 19 | 44 |
| 2007 | 24 | 14 | 38 |
| 2008 | 42 | 11 | 53 |
| 2009 | 42 | 6 | 48 |
| 2010 | 31 | 26 | 57 |
| 2011 | 33 | 14 | 47 |
| 2012 | 30 | 27 | 57 |
| 2013 | 42 | 15 | 57 |
| 2014 | 35 | 18 | 53 |
| 2015 | 38 | 18 | 56 |
| 2016 | 37 | 18 | 55 |
| 2017 | 31 | 18 | 49 |
| 2018 | 32 | 21 | 53 |
| 2019 | 28 | 16 | 44 |
| 2020 | 25 | 12 | 37 |
| 2021 | 18 | 10 | 28 |
| 2022 | 8 | 16 | 24 |
| 2023 | 7 | 11 | 18 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Caenorhabditis elegans" by people in Profiles.
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Macrocephaly and developmental delay caused by missense variants in RAB5C. Hum Mol Genet. 2023 10 17; 32(21):3063-3077.
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Post-synaptic GABAA receptors potentiate transmission by recruiting CaV2 channels to their inputs. Cell Rep. 2023 10 31; 42(10):113161.
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A sex-specific switch in a single glial cell patterns the apical extracellular matrix. Curr Biol. 2023 10 09; 33(19):4174-4186.e7.
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18S rRNA methyltransferases DIMT1 and BUD23 drive intergenerational hormesis. Mol Cell. 2023 09 21; 83(18):3268-3282.e7.
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Ether lipid biosynthesis promotes lifespan extension and enables diverse pro-longevity paradigms in Caenorhabditis elegans. Elife. 2023 08 22; 12.
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Discovery of Novel Effector Protein Candidates Produced in the Dorsal Gland of Adult Female Root-Knot Nematodes. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2023 Jun; 36(6):372-380.
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Characterization of factors that underlie transcriptional silencing in C. elegans oocytes. PLoS Genet. 2023 07; 19(7):e1010831.
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Measures of Information Content during Anesthesia and Emergence in the Caenorhabditis elegans Nervous System. Anesthesiology. 2023 07 01; 139(1):49-62.
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Foreign RNA spike-ins enable accurate allele-specific expression analysis at scale. Bioinformatics. 2023 06 30; 39(39 Suppl 1):i431-i439.
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Branched-chain actin dynamics polarizes vesicle trajectories and partitions apicobasal epithelial membrane domains. Sci Adv. 2023 06 28; 9(26):eade4022.