Ellsworth C. Dougherty (July 21, 1921 – 1965) was a biologist who was first to study the nematode worm ''
Caenorhabditis elegans
''Caenorhabditis elegans'' () is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus. The name is a blend of the Greek ''caeno-'' (recent), ''rhabditis'' (ro ...
'' in the laboratory, with
Victor Nigon, in the 1940s.
He did most of his studies and medical work in California.
Tributes
Mount Dougherty
Mount Dougherty is a mountain, high, between Mount Sandved and Mount Cara on the main north–south ridge in the northern part of the Queen Elizabeth Range. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from tellurometer surveys and Navy ...
is a mountain range in Antarctica named after Ellsworth Dougherty.
The specific epithet given to the nematode species ''
Caenorhabditis doughertyi
''Caenorhabditis doughertyi'' is a species of nematodes in the genus '' Caenorhabditis''. Prior to 2014, it was referred to as ''C. sp. 10''
JU1333 wild isolate was collected from rotting cacao fruits in Kerala, India in 2007.
The specific epi ...
'' is also a tribute to E. Dougherty.
See also
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History of research on Caenorhabditis elegans
The nematode worm '' Caenorhabditis elegans'' was first studied in the laboratory by Victor Nigon and Ellsworth Dougherty in the 1940s, but came to prominence after being adopted by Sydney Brenner in 1963 as a model organism for the study of dev ...
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1921 births
1965 deaths
20th-century American biologists
Caenorhabditis elegans
20th-century American zoologists
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