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Pristionchus pacificus WIKI

This WIKI is hosted at the Department for Evolutionary Biology ,at the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.

Pristionchus pacificus is a nematode (roundworm) in the family Diplogastridae. Its last common ancestor with Caenorhabditis elegans lived 200-300 Mio years ago. Our lab has established Pristionchus pacificus as a second nematode model organism for biological research. Work on nematodes has a long scientific history and a large commmunity of researchers works on the classical nematode model organism Caenorhabditis elegans . You can find very good online resources here.

More lab-specific stuff below:

1. Pristionchus pacificus Protocols
2. Pristionchus strain list
3. Publications
4. Events
5. FAQ
6. Sommer Lab announcements
7. SSLPs
8. Softwares

For beginners:

1. The Pristionchus.org tutorial
2. The beginner's guide to the Pristionchus universe
3. The multilingual worm