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Mark Blaxter's teaching pages

@ The Blaxter Lab, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

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C. elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans

Caenorhabditis elegans is a small, freeliving nematode that is the subject of an extensive integrated analysis of the genetics of development. As a nematode it is also an excellent model nematode, and we use C. elegans extensively in our parasitic nematode biology research.

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An introduction
to C. elegans

An introduction to the biology and genetics of C. elegans

Mark Blaxter

The genome of
C. elegans

The complete genome of C. elegans has been sequenced. These pages offer a review and summary of this amazing achievement.

Mark Blaxter

C. elegans
C. elegans

C. elegans is a nematode

As a nematode, the genome of C. elegans has much to say about the biology of parasites

Mark Blaxter

Introduction to the developmental biology of C. elegans

A set of lecture notes developed for 3rd and 4th year classes in Edinburgh, including early development and the development of the vulva.

Mark Blaxter

Analysis of SXC and TYR genes of C. elegans

We are working on the biology of two gene families in C. elegans, the TYR (tyrosinase) and SXC (six-cysteine repeat) genes

Bill Gregory and Mark Blaxter

The position of C. elegans within the diversity of nematodes

Using molecular markers to analyse the diveristy of the Phylum Nematoda

Mark Blaxter


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Nippostrongylus brasiliensis

The rat hookworm Nippostrongylus brasiliensis.
Hookworms are gut parasites of a wide range of vertebrates, including humans. This species is a rat parasite used as a research model for human hookworm disease. See NEMBASE4 for analyses of ESTs from this parasite and many other nematodes.

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