Caenorhabditis elegans, as the roundworm is properly known, is a tiny, transparent animal just a millimeter long.

秀丽隐杆线虫是蛔虫的学名，是一种只有1毫米长的透明小生物。

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Such genes have been found in abundance in other organisms - including over 70 in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

这类基因在其他的生命组织中已被大量发现——包括超过70种的蠕虫线虫。

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In a small worm, say the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, there are 959 cells, making it the ideal model to solve this problem.

以某种小型土壤线虫为例，它有959个细胞，是解决这一问题的理想模型。

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He tested his idea in a tiny nematode worm called Caenorhabditis elegans and, in 1994, published a paper showing how touch-receptor proteins are distributed around this worm.

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The researchers also are developing protein-network maps for other organisms, including a yeast cell and Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny worm with some 19, 000 genes, about the same number as humans.

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In this case, the worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) was found by scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, to losing its muscle mass and strength as it aged, without any accompanying loss in nervous system function.

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