Number of somatic cell nuclei in an adult hermaphrodite
| Value | 959 Unitless |
|---|---|
| Organism | Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans |
| Reference | W. B. Wood. The Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. (CSH) 1988 p.1 3rd paragraph |
| Comments | "C. elegans is a simple organism, both anatomically and genetically. The adult hermaphrodite has only 959 somatic nuclei, and the adult male has only 1031. The haploid genome size is 8×10^7 nucleotide pairs, about eight times that of the yeast Saccharomyces or one-half that of the fruit fly Drosophila." |
| Entered by | Itai Yanai |
| ID | 100581 |