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.LIST OF AVAILABLE CAENORHABDITIS SPECIES and the state of their genome projects at evolution.wormbase.org 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.Karin Kiontke and Walter Sudhaus, Ecology of Caenorhabditis species, wormbook.org. 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.Marie-Anne Félix, Christian Braendle and Asher D. Cutter, A Streamlined System for Species Diagnosis in Caenorhabditis (Nematoda: Rhabditidae) with Name Designations for 15 Distinct Biological Species. PLOS, April 11, 2014, Its genome was sequenced by the Edinburgh Genomics Facility, University of Edinburgh.
Several strains are known and kept in labs. Strain SB341 can be maintained on OP50 E. coli plates.
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Caenorhabditis sp. 1 at nematodes.org Caenorhabditis sp. 1 JU1667 at uniprot.org