The Nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans

by William B. Wood

Book Overview

In 1965 Sydney Brenner chose the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a promising model system for a concerted genetic, ultrastructural, and behavioral attack on the development and function of a simple nervous system. Since then, with the help of a growing number of investigators, knowledge about the biology of "the worm" has accumulated at a steadily accelerating pace to the extent that C. elegans is now probably the most completely understood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879694335
• ISBN13: 9780879694333
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Length: 667 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great Resource!

A must-have for any C. elegans laboratory or any researcher interested in beginning to work with C. elegans.

Reseaching on THE Worm

This is an extraordiany book full of information vital for people who are interested or reseaching on C. elegans. It gives detail information as well as illustrations to help guide neophyte undergraduates/graduates to understand why this worm is used as a model for neuroscience reseach. This book covers the genetics, genome, anatomy, cell lineage, development, nerous system, embryology, etc. of C. elegans in as much detail as one will need to know plus useful references. Highly reccommend this book for people working with this worm in the lab.