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A novel bacterial pathogen, Microbacterium nematophilum, induces morphological change in the nematode C. elegans.
Current biology : CB - 1 Jan 2000
Hodgkin J, Kuwabara P E, Corneliussen B
Abstract excerpt
The Dar (deformed anal region) phenotype, characterized by a distinctive swollen tail, was first detected in a variant strain of Caenorhabditis elegans which appeared spontaneously in 1986 during routine genetic crosses [1,2]. Dar isolates were initially analysed as morphological mutants, but we report here that two independent isolates carry an unusual bacterial infection different from those previously...
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