Caenorhabditis afra is a species of nematodes in the genus Caenorhabditis. This gonochoristic (male-female) species was isolated by Matthias Herrmann in Begoro, Ghana, Africa in 2007. Its genome is being sequenced at McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine.
| Caenorhabditis afra | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Family: | Rhabditidae |
| Genus: | Caenorhabditis |
| Species: | C. afra |
| Binomial name | |
| Caenorhabditis afra Felix, Braendle & Cutter, 2014[1] | |
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C. afra groups in phylogenetic trees with C. elegans in the 'Elegans' supergroup.[1] This species groups more closely with C. imperialis in the 'Japonica' group, the sister clade to the 'Elegans' group.
References
External links
- Caenorhabditis afra at uniprot.org