This model organism can be as simple as a yeast cell or as complex as a nematode worm , fruitfly , or even a mouse.

这一生物模型可以是简单的酵母细胞或复杂的线虫甚至老鼠。

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We employ the nematode worm C. elegans as a model experimental system for studying the genetic mechanisms underlying the control of animal development and human disease.

作为模式生物实验系统，线虫可用于研究控制动物发育和人类疾病遗传机制。

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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.

他于1994年在一种称为秀丽隠杆线虫的小型线虫中试验了这一想法，标示出接触受体是如何在整个虫体中分布的，并据此发表了一篇文章。

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While the mechanics of the Medea element are still not well understood, scientists have recently investigated another example in the nematode worm, C. elegans.

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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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In 1972 Sydney Brenner, a biologist then at Cambridge University, decided to work out the connections of every cell in the nervous system of a small nematode worm called C. elegans.

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