Population structure and punctuated genomic hyper-diversity in Caenorhabditis briggsae

Nicolas D Moya, Bowen Wang, Robyn E Tanny, Michael E G Sauria, Lance M O’Connor, Ayeh Khorshidian, Ryan McKeown, Charlie Gosse, Clayton M Dilks, Timothy A Crombie, Gaotian Zhang, Emha Rais, Lise Frézal, Viet Dai Dang, Elkana Haryoso, Mia P Devi, Clotilde Gimond, Daniel E Cook, Jung-Chen Hsu, Amanda O Shaver, Stefan Zdraljevic, Aurélien Richaud, Tongshu Wen, Aatira Mehraj, Sharanya H, Karthick Raja Arulprakasam, Emily J Koury, Nicole M Roberto, Etta S Schaye, Varsha Singh, Hagus Tarno, Michael Ailion, Annalise B Paaby, Zhongying Zhao, Asher D Cutter, John Wang, Matthew V Rockman, Marie-Anne Félix, Christian Braendle, Erik C Andersen · 2026

Read Population structure and punctuated genomic hyper-diversity in Caenorhabditis briggsae by Nicolas D Moya, Bowen Wang, Robyn E Tanny, Michael E G Sauria, Lance M O’Connor, Ayeh Khorshidian, Ryan McKeown, Charlie Gosse, Clayton M Dilks, Timothy A Crombie, Gaotian Zhang, Emha Rais, Lise Frézal, Viet Dai Dang, Elkana Haryoso, Mia P Devi, Clotilde Gimond, Daniel E Cook, Jung-Chen Hsu, Amanda O Shaver, Stefan Zdraljevic, Aurélien Richaud, Tongshu Wen, Aatira Mehraj, Sharanya H, Karthick Raja Arulprakasam, Emily J Koury, Nicole M Roberto, Etta S Schaye, Varsha Singh, Hagus Tarno, Michael Ailion, Annalise B Paaby, Zhongying Zhao, Asher D Cutter, John Wang, Matthew V Rockman, Marie-Anne Félix, Christian Braendle, Erik C Andersen (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13524100.txt.

Description

Moya and a large world team catalogued in 2026 the wild kin of a tiny soil worm, Caenorhabditis briggsae, a lab stand in for the famed C. elegans. Field hunts by many labs netted more than nineteen hundred wild strains. The team read their full gene codes and logged more than six million code shifts. Maps of kin by place came next, plus a scan for zones where shifts run wild. A cross breed cousin, C. nigoni, served as the old root check.

The maps found fresh kin groups, some spread whole continents wide though the worm breeds with itself. Scattered genome zones held shifts at wild rates. Those zones teem with new genes and with sense and germ fight genes. The cousin check dates the pattern far back: long held balance, not fresh chance, kept the wealth. The strain bank now arms trait hunts across both worm kinds.

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CREATORNicolas D Moya, Bowen Wang, Robyn E Tanny, Michael E G Sauria, Lance M O’Connor, Ayeh Khorshidian, Ryan McKeown, Charlie Gosse, Clayton M Dilks, Timothy A Crombie, Gaotian Zhang, Emha Rais, Lise Frézal, Viet Dai Dang, Elkana Haryoso, Mia P Devi, Clotilde Gimond, Daniel E Cook, Jung-Chen Hsu, Amanda O Shaver, Stefan Zdraljevic, Aurélien Richaud, Tongshu Wen, Aatira Mehraj, Sharanya H, Karthick Raja Arulprakasam, Emily J Koury, Nicole M Roberto, Etta S Schaye, Varsha Singh, Hagus Tarno, Michael Ailion, Annalise B Paaby, Zhongying Zhao, Asher D Cutter, John Wang, Matthew V Rockman, Marie-Anne Félix, Christian Braendle, Erik C Andersen
YEAR2026
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Source: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/PMC13524100

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