A transgenic approach allows researchers to collect the organelles from specific cells in nematodes with unprecedented efficiency.

Adding a fusion gene to certain mitochondria in C. elegans enables researchers to collect and analyze them.

Unsuccessful attempts to reproduce the results of a 2015 study reporting that C. elegans orient themselves by Earth’s magnetic field spark debate among researchers.

The biologist earned a Nobel Prize in 2002 for his work on C. elegans.

Maintaining dynamic connections among the body’s mitochondria is required for the health and life-extending benefits of low-calorie diets for nematodes.

Food restriction decreases a metabolite that impedes associative learning in worms. 

The memory of a temperature spike can persist for as many as 14 generations in C. elegans.

When Caenorhabditis elegans surrenders to slumber, the majority of its neurons fall silent.

The roundworm uses a light receptor that resembles a type of taste receptor and is better at detecting UV light than human photoreceptors.

Researchers identify a C. elegans gene that leads the organelles to self-destruct in sperm following fertilization of an egg.