elegans are available at no cost to researchers at educational institutions or non-profit organizations. Wild-type and over 3,000 mutant strains of C. elegans World Wide Web 2.2. Requesting strains A second subcontract helps Leon Avery (Southwestern MedicalĬenter, University of Texas, Dallas) maintain the C. elegans genetic nomenclature and the genetic map are handled by the CGC as a subcontract under the directorship of Jonathan HodgkinĪt the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England. elegans researchers who briefly describe their current work. elegans researchers, and abstracts submitted by C. elegans bibliographic update, announcements and news, a directory of C. The Worm Breeder's Gazette (WBG), a newsletter that is published three times per year, is available in hard copy from theĬGC for a small two-year subscription fee, and it is available free of charge on the internet. The CGC maintains an up-to-date bibliographic list of all articles, reviews and books that discuss C. elegans and several species closely related to C. Gene and all chromosome rearrangements (deficiencies, duplications, translocations, inversions).

The CGC strives to acquire and have available for distribution stocks representing at least one mutant allele of each published elegans strains and information to scientists initiating or continuing research using C. (NIH NCRR), the basic mission of the CGC is to provide C. Funded through a contract with the National Institutes of Health National Center for Research Resources

In 1992 the CGC moved from Missouri to the University The CGC was established at the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1979.

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