''Caenorhabditis japonica'' is a species of nematodes in the genus ''
Caenorhabditis''. Its genome was sequenced by the Genome Center at
Washington University. This gonochoristic species is found in the 'Japonica' group, the sister clade to the 'Elegans' group, in the 'Elegans' supergroup.
In the wild, this species is found non-parasitically associated with the burrower bugs ''
Parastrachia japonensis
''Parastrachia japonensis'' is a species of true bugs belonging to the family Parastrachiidae. It is one of the two species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit ...
'' (Heteroptera: Cydnidae) and may be able to enter the dauer stage regardless of food and crowding conditions.
[Low survivorship of dauer larva in the nematode Caenorhabditis japonica, a potential comparative system for a model organism, C. elegans. Ryusei Tanaka, Etsuko Okumura, Natsumi Kanzaki and Toyoshi Yoshiga, Experimental Gerontology, Volume 47, Issue 5, May 2012, Pages 388–393, ]
References
External links
''Caenorhabditis japonica''at uniprot.org
japonica
Fauna of Japan
Nematodes described in 2002
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