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Caenorhabditis elegans

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2020

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Caenorhabditis elegans

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The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, which has long been used to study different aspects of basic biology, has emerged as a model organism to study the microbiome.

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Caenorhabditis elegans
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NIH Research Matters

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Caenorhabditis elegans