<em>C. elegans</em> Lab Strain's Dramatic Reaction to Tiny Mutation (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

<em>C. elegans</em> Lab Strain's Dramatic Reaction to Tiny Mutation

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Patrick McGrath holds up dishes with two lab strains of the C. elegans roundworm. Strain LSJ2 (dish on right) dramatically changed its survival strategy to live longer and have fewer offspring due to a tiny mutation on its NURF-1 gene.

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Fitrah Hamid / Georgia Tech

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