TY - JOUR AU - Blaxter, Mark AU - Denver, Dee R. PY - 2012 DA - 2012/06/25 TI - The worm in the world and the world in the worm JO - BMC Biology SP - 57 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - Caenorhabditis elegans is a preeminent model organism, but the natural ecology of this nematode has been elusive. A four-year survey of French orchards published in BMC Biology reveals thriving populations of C. elegans (and Caenorhabditis briggsae) in rotting fruit and plant stems. Rather than being simply a 'soil nematode', C. elegans appears to be a 'plant-rot nematode'. These studies signal a growing interest in the integrated genomics and ecology of these tractable animals. SN - 1741-7007 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-10-57 DO - 10.1186/1741-7007-10-57 ID - Blaxter2012 ER -