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WormBook is a comprehensive, open-access collection of original, peer-reviewed chapters covering topics related to the biology of Caenorhabditis elegans and other nematodes. Wormbook also contains WormMethods, a collection of protocols for nematode researchers, and the Worm Breeder's Gazette, an informal, non-refereed, biannual newsletter for the interchange of ideas and information related to C. elegans and other nematodes.

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May 25, 2011

Worm Breeder's Gazette submission deadline extended
The deadline for submission to the next issue of The Worm Breeder's Gazette has been changed from June 1 to August 1, 2011. Please visit www.wormbook.org/wbg to submit your single-page article. It would be especially appropriate for this issue if you would submit any new methods mentioned at this year's International C. elegans meeting.

December 18, 2010

Third issue of the Worm Breeder's Gazette now available
Volume 18, number 3 of the Worm Breeder's Gazette is now available at http://www.wormbook.org/wbg/, or by clicking the Gazette cover. This issue includes new protocols for mounting worms for microscopy, preparation of dauer larvae, and establishing gradients for chemotaxis assays. Additional articles describe sequence corrections, new software, expression profiles, neural networks, available expression clones, and studies of chemotaxis and self recognition.

October 4, 2010

Neurogenesis chapter updated
'Neurogenesis in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans' by Oliver Hobert has been added to the Neurobiology and behavior section. This new chapter is an update and expansion of his previous chapter, 'Specification of the nervous system'.

June 17, 2010

The Worm Breeder’s Gazette, Volume 18, number 2 now available
A new issue of The Worm Breeder's Gazette is now available at http://www.wormbook.org/wbg/. This issue includes 25 contributions describing new methods for selecting transformants, useful strains and vectors, bioinformatics resources, visualization methods and more.

May 3, 2010

The Worm Breeder's Gazette, Volume 18, number 2 coming soon
We are currently soliciting contributions (due may 15) for the second issue of the online Worm Breeder's Gazette, to be published June 15, 2010. For further information and author instructions, please see http://www.wormbook.org/wbg.html.

May 2, 2010

Ethanol chapter now available
Ethanol, by Steven McIntire, is now available in html and pdf formats.

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