The research team focused on the pharyngeal-intestinal valve in a C. elegans' digestive tract. This valve connects the pharynx to the intestine, regulates food movement routes, and has a structure ...

More information: Samantha Y. Tse-Kang et al, Intestinal immunity in C. elegans is activated by pathogen effector-triggered aggregation of the guard protein TIR-1 on lysosome-related organelles ...

Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans, is a small roundworm (nematode) usually found in the soil in temperate climates all around the world. It feeds on microorganisms like bacteria and can be most ...

The authors provided C. elegans with a diet containing different ... re-expression of SKN-1 in the ASI neurons (but not in the intestine), indicating that SKN-1B expression mediates the effect ...