A chain of very large cuboidal cells forming a wide central lumen in which food arrives from the posterior pharynx, is digested, and from which waste products proceed to the rectum. Intestinal rings form in groups of two and four cells surrounding the common lumen; thus the epithelium is only one cell deep at any point, with neighboring cells firmly secured to their neighbors by apical adherens junctions. These cells have very large nuclei and many large vacuoles, yolk granules, and other inclusions; the latter increase in number and electron density as the animal ages. |
intestine
|
gut |
WBbt:0005772
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Longitudinal bands of muscle cells surrounding animal body, with one band running in each quadrant of the body, regulated contraction and relaxation of these muscles cause locomotion. |
body wall musculature
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body muscle |
WBbt:0005813
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muscle associated with hermaphrodite vulva. |
vulval muscle
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WBbt:0005821
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the feeding organ, a neuro-muscular pump in the head of the animal, used to ingest food, bacteria suspended in liquid, filter them out, grind them up and transport posteriorly into the instestine. |
pharynx
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esophagus |
WBbt:0003681
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Anterior distal tip cell, inhibit meiosis in neighbouring germ cells, lead gonad during morphogenesis, herm gonad |
anterior distal tip cell
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gon herm dtc A |
WBbt:0004520
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Posterior distal tip cell, inhibit meiosis in neighbouring germ cells, lead gonad during morphogenesis, herm gonad |
posterior distal tip cell
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gon herm dtc P |
WBbt:0004506
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male gonad cell, leads gonad during morphogenesis and initiates union with cloaca |
linker cell
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gon_male_link |
WBbt:0005062
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a group of hypodermal cells that lie along the apical midline of the hypodermis, at the extreme left and right sides between nose and tail |
seam cell
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lateral hypodermis |
WBbt:0005753
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A free-floating spherical cell lying in the pseudocoelomic cavity of larvae and adult C. elegans which can endocytose many compounds, possibly for immune surveillance. There are six coelomocytes in adult hermaphrodites, and they display prominent cytoplasmic inclusions and vacuoles. |
coelomocyte
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|
WBbt:0005751
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Tail dorsal hypodermis |
hyp11
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lineage name: Cpappv |
WBbt:0004377
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five pairs of thin gonadal sheath cells form a single layer covering the germ line component of each arm, each pair occupying a stereotyped position along the gonad proximal-distal axis. |
gonadal sheath cell
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WBbt:0005828
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That portion of the male reproductive tract, through which sperm are delivered to the proctodeum and then the cloaca in the tail. Thus that portion which is distal to the testis, made of a total of 30 cells. |
vas deferens
|
gon_male_vdef |
WBbt:0005337
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membranous cell attaches the uterus to the lateral epidermis (seam) and forms a thin laminar process dorsal to the vulva. formed by fusion of eight pi cell progeny and AC. |
uterine seam cell
|
utse |
WBbt:0006789
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Neuron class of one ring interneuron, cell body in dorsorectal ganglion, inervates rectal muscles. |
DVB
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lineage name: K.p |
WBbt:0004822
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epithelium connecting intestine and anus. |
rectal epithelium
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WBbt:0005800
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interneuron
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WBbt:0005113
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specialized muscle in the male. |
diagonal muscle
|
dgl |
WBbt:0005815
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Distal tip cell, inhibits meiosis in nearby germ cells, anterior |
gon_male_dtc anterior
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lineage name: Z1.a |
WBbt:0005064
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Distal tip cell, inhibits meiosis in nearby germ cells, posterior. |
gon_male_dtc posterior
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lineage name: Z4.p |
WBbt:0005063
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socket cell of male spicule. |
spicule socket cell
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WBbt:0005309
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