Cultivation of the rhabditid Poikilolaimus oxycercus as a laboratory nematode for genetic analyses.

@article{Hong2005CultivationOT,
  title={Cultivation of the rhabditid Poikilolaimus oxycercus as a laboratory nematode for genetic analyses.},
  author={Ray L. Hong and Andreas Villwock and Ralf J. Sommer},
  journal={Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Comparative experimental biology},
  year={2005},
  volume={303 9},
  pages={
          742-60
        }
}
Vulva formation is a paradigm for evolutionary developmental biology in nematodes. Not only do the number of vulval precursor cells (VPCs) differ between members in the Rhabditidae and Diplogastridae, they are also sculpted via different developmental mechanisms, either by cell fusion in most Rhabditidae or by programmed cell death in the Diplogastridae. In this context, the species Poikilolaimus oxycercus is the only known species in the family Rhabditidae to have a subset of the Pn.p cells… 
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