Talk:Caenorhabditis elegans

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From Ericross

Apologies for insert-remove-insert-remove 'ping pong'.

Material inserted then removed was from a site where copyright was not immediately obvious to me, but became apparent after checking further.

Request to author for inclusion will be submitted.

Eri.

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Made some minor corrections. There are still a few things in the article that are not exactly true but not exactly false. When I become a little more familiar with wikipedia (sorry, I'm a newbie), I may do a little more work on this.

--Leon avery 17:51, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 C'monnnnnnn 2 What this page needs 3 Over the falls in a barrel 4 WormAtlas/C. elegans II copyright 5 Nematode evolution 6 Nicotine

[edit] C'monnnnnnn

C. elegans is important! This article should be 50 pages long. I request the efforts of biology students and researchers and teachers to expand this page!!

I'm working on it! :-) I've made the first attempt to split up the page into distinct sections. Other plans below... Nod

[edit] What this page needs

Some ideas:

1. Expand biology section and as it grows create new subsections as appropriate (e.g. nervous system, cellular differentiation, mating system etc.). Ultimately, these could each be separate wikipedia pages
2. Add information about use of RNAi in worms somewhere (model organism section)
3. Rather than people add their own lab to the online resources section, there should maybe be a new page for C. elegans laboratories (I removed one lab link earlier). With so many C. elegans labs it will get unwieldly to include them all here
4. try to avoid mentioning individual genes on this page. Again the page will get too crowded if people just add one sentence about their favourite gene. Important genes probably merit separate wikipedia pages which could all be linked from a C. elegans genes page (which in turn would be linked to the C. elegans page)
5. References section should also be moved to a separate page if it gets too big, though I think that this should maybe only contain details of key papers
6. I've requested (from the WormAtlas project) a high quality image of the worm to to at the top of the page...an image which doesn't have any staining.

Nod 15:45, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Over the falls in a barrel

It would be interesting if this could be included, though I don't know how to include it without hurting the professional tone of the article. C. Elegans may hold the record for worst calamity survived by a complex organism.

Though, I think the record for an unprotected organism (the C. Elegans were in a petri dish in an aluminum canister) is the water bear. It's amazing what those things can survive.Tragic romance 09:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WormAtlas/C. elegans II copyright

I'm far from sure if we are allowed to use their text and images without asking them for it/them each time.. However, WormAtlas states:

"Images or text created by Wormatlas may be used by individuals or organizations for non-profit educational and scientific purposes with proper acknowledgement of Wormatlas (http://www.wormatlas.org). Submitted material that appear in Wormatlas require permission from the original submitter and/or publisher prior to usage or republication."

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (link) says their info is in the public domain, but I couldn't find anything on the C. elegans II (link) site. I'm not sure if we can use their pictures too.

I'm thinking of greatly expanding the section about the nervous system (well, actually more than just the nervous system but just to begin somewhere ;)), so it would be great if I/we could incorporate their data and pictures. Marcus 13:04, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I contacted Zeynep Altun at WormAtlas who gave me permission for use of the image at the top of the page. I think they would be happy to let more images be used if you sought permission. Nod 19:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nematode evolution

I added this section primarily to move the paragraph on sponge-human-worm evolution out of the genome section as it didn't really seem to belong there. I also heavily pruned and edited the aforementioned paragraph as I don't think it added much interesting information to this page. I don't think a general page on a species should get too bogged down in mentioning individual genes unless they are famously associated with that organism or play a very special role. Hopefully, others can now start adding something more substantial to this section. Estimates of divergence dates from other major organisms might be of interest. Nod 19:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nicotine

The 'laboratory uses' section now states that 'The organism has also been identified as a model for nicotine dependence as it has been found to experience the same symptoms humans experience when they quit smoking. [4]'

Such as what? Nail biting, coughing and starting fights with strangers?

The (4) article mentions 'including acute response, tolerance, withdrawal, and sensitization'. Put that in, or remove the line as a whole? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brrrtje (talk • contribs) 14:06, 3 October 2007 (UTC)