Basic Caenorhabditis elegans Methods: Synchronization and ObservationMontserrat Porta-de-la-Riva 1,2, Laura Fontrodona 1, Alberto Villanueva 1,2, Julián Cerón 1,2
1Department of Cancer and Human Molecular Genetics, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research, 2C. elegans Core Facility, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research
The easiness of maintaining and propagating the nematode C. elegans make it a nice model organism to work with. The possibility of synchronizing worms allows the work with a significant amount of subjects at the same developmental stage, what facilitates the study of one particular process in many animals.
