Uploaded April 2013 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
A brief introduction to C. elegans: everything you need to know about C. elegans basic biology in 2 minutes.
Check out the OpenWorm browser at browser.openworm.org
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**NOTE**
Some of the footage features the C. elegans 3D model produced by Dr. Christian Grove and Dr. Paul Sternberg at the VirtualWorm project (WormBase, CalTech) and released into the public domain. You can visit the VirtualWorm home page at caltech.wormbase.org/virtualworm
Other footage compiled from clips on YouTube & Vimeo:
Christian Grove: youtube.com/watch?v=I9Rzj60mYtY
MIT News: youtube.com/watch?v=olrkWpCqVCE
Jesper Pederson: youtube.com/watch?v=c-86OQgcMTM
Peretz Partensky: youtube.com/watch?v=4njNcP0Pxcw
William Mair: vimeo.com/47659537
Music: 綴れ織 tudure-ori by zmi is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. freemusicarchive.org/music/zmi/hope30/14__tudure-ori_
A brief introduction to C. elegans: everything you need to know about C. elegans basic biology in 2 minutes.
Check out the OpenWorm browser at browser.openworm.org
Find out more about OpenWorm at openworm.org
**NOTE**
Some of the footage features the C. elegans 3D model produced by Dr. Christian Grove and Dr. Paul Sternberg at the VirtualWorm project (WormBase, CalTech) and released into the public domain. You can visit the VirtualWorm home page at caltech.wormbase.org/virtualworm
Other footage compiled from clips on YouTube & Vimeo:
Christian Grove: youtube.com/watch?v=I9Rzj60mYtY
MIT News: youtube.com/watch?v=olrkWpCqVCE
Jesper Pederson: youtube.com/watch?v=c-86OQgcMTM
Peretz Partensky: youtube.com/watch?v=4njNcP0Pxcw
William Mair: vimeo.com/47659537
Music: 綴れ織 tudure-ori by zmi is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. freemusicarchive.org/music/zmi/hope30/14__tudure-ori_
