| Availability | At the CGC (originally sent to the CGC under the misnomer "Caenorhabditis vulgariensis", subsequently emended to "C. vulgaris", the name under which this strain was described by Baird, Fitch & Emmons, 1994). |
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| Strain Isolation | Scott E. Baird, June, 1990 Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA. Garden of Scott Emmons, Oxford Street, Fort Greene section. An pill bug (Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804) Budde-Lund, 1885) from soil in a compost heap. |
| Culture Notes | Grows on OP50 at 18-25C. Gonochoristic. Originally begun as an isofemale line derived from dauer juveniles associated with a pill bug. Sometimes tend to crawl off the plate. 18S rDNA sequenced (Fitch et al., 1995). |
| Cryopreservation | Survives freezing. |
| Synonyms | C. vulgariensis BK C. vulgaris BK |
| Labs that keep this strain | Source from whence the strain was obtained |
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| EM: Scott W. Emmons | EM | DF: David H. A. Fitch | EM | CGC: Robert K. Herman | EM |
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