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Caenorhabditis elegans

"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.

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A species of nematode that is widely used in biological, biochemical, and genetic studies.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Caenorhabditis elegans" by people in this website by year, and whether "Caenorhabditis elegans" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 179 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2014 and 2015
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