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…this month’s most tenuous plant link?

Posted on August 2nd, 2011 by Nigel Chaffey

Warning for the zoophobic: this item is about Caenorhabditis elegans – a free-living, transparent nematode {‘roundworm’ –sometimes known as ‘the Arabidopsis of animal biology’ [that’s Arabidopsis (frequently described as ‘the fruit fly of plant biology’) and fruit fly – Drosophila – which in its turn is occasionally referred to as the ‘maize of zoology’…]}. Enough, [...]