| Caenorhabditis monodelphis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Family: | Rhabditidae |
| Genus: | Caenorhabditis |
| Species: | C. monodelphis |
| Binomial name | |
| Caenorhabditis monodelphis Dieter Slos, Walter Sudhaus, Lewis Stevens, Wim Bert & Mark Blaxter, 2017 [1] | |
| Strains | |
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| Synonyms | |
Caenorhabditis sp. 1 | |
Caenorhabditis monodelphis is a species of nematodes in the genus Caenorhabditis . It was first collected by J. Raschka in Berlin, Germany in 2001. A second isolate was collected from Norway. [2] It is a free-living species found in galleries inside of the fungus Ganoderma applanatum (Polyporaceae) which grew on the stump of a tree a few centimeters above ground. [3] It is phoretic on beetles of the species Cis castaneus .
C. monodelphis (C. sp. 1) groups with Caenorhabditis plicata outside either the 'Drosophilae' or the 'Elegans' supergroups in phylogenetic studies. [4] Its genome was sequenced by the Edinburgh Genomics Facility, University of Edinburgh.[ citation needed ]
Several strains are known and kept in labs. Strain SB341 can be maintained on OP50 E. coli plates.[ citation needed ]
