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WormBook is a comprehensive, open-access collection of original, peer-reviewed chapters covering topics related to the biology of Caenorhabditis elegans and other nematodes. Wormbook also contains WormMethods, a collection of protocols for nematode researchers, and the Worm Breeder's Gazette, an informal, non-refereed, biannual newsletter for the interchange of ideas and information related to C. elegans and other nematodes.

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The Worm Breeder's Gazette
Volume 19, Number 1
December 2011

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March 23, 2012

Updated chapter added

Pre-mRNA splicing and its regulation by Alan Zahler has just been added to the Molecular biology section. This chapter updates the review of constitutive splicing factors, identification of alternatively spliced genes, and regulation of alternative splicing found in it's predecessor, Alternative splicing in C. elegans. It also and adds discussions on the coupling of alternative splicing to nonsense-mediated decay and the progress toward identifying the alternative splicing code in C. elegans.

December 20, 2011

The Worm Breeder's Gazette Publishes A New Issue

The Worm Breeder's Gazette, Volume 19, number 1 is now available. This issue contains improved protocols for imaging, snPCR, immunoblotting, transgenesis and worm pick construction. Please click here to read more ...

August 11, 2011

New Worm Breeder's Gazette Published: Volume 18, Number 4

A new issue of The Worm Breeder's Gazette is now available! This issue includes a description of new software for managing gene lists, instructions on how to run your own WormBase via Amazon's Cloud, improvements in automated lineage tracking and in RNAi feeding of multiple genes, and several other useful articles. We thank the authors and the worm community for contributing to the Worm Breeder's Gazette.

Submissions for the next Volume are due December 1, 2011. You can submit articles online anytime. Please see the instructions for authors for details.

December 18, 2010

Third issue of the Worm Breeder's Gazette now available

Volume 18, number 3 of the Worm Breeder's Gazette is now available at http://www.wormbook.org/wbg/, or by clicking the Gazette cover. This issue includes new protocols for mounting worms for microscopy, preparation of dauer larvae, and establishing gradients for chemotaxis assays. Additional articles describe sequence corrections, new software, expression profiles, neural networks, available expression clones, and studies of chemotaxis and self recognition.

October 4, 2010

Neurogenesis chapter updated

'Neurogenesis in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans' by Oliver Hobert has been added to the Neurobiology and behavior section. This new chapter is an update and expansion of his previous chapter, 'Specification of the nervous system'.

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