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an accordion-like tube that contains sperm and is the site of oocyte fertilization. |
spermatheca
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WBbt:0005319
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A chain of very large cuboidal cells forming a wide central lumen in which food arrives from the posterior pharynx, is digested, and from which waste products proceed to the rectum. Intestinal rings form in groups of two and four cells surrounding the common lumen; thus the epithelium is only one cell deep at any point, with neighboring cells firmly secured to their neighbors by apical adherens junctions. These cells have very large nuclei and many large vacuoles, yolk granules, and other inclusions; the latter increase in number and electron density as the animal ages. |
intestine
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gut |
WBbt:0005772
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Longitudinal bands of muscle cells surrounding animal body, with one band running in each quadrant of the body, regulated contraction and relaxation of these muscles cause locomotion. |
body wall musculature
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body muscle |
WBbt:0005813
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muscle associated with hermaphrodite vulva. |
vulval muscle
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WBbt:0005821
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the feeding organ, a neuro-muscular pump in the head of the animal, used to ingest food, bacteria suspended in liquid, filter them out, grind them up and transport posteriorly into the instestine. |
pharynx
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esophagus |
WBbt:0003681
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A free-floating spherical cell lying in the pseudocoelomic cavity of larvae and adult C. elegans which can endocytose many compounds, possibly for immune surveillance. There are six coelomocytes in adult hermaphrodites, and they display prominent cytoplasmic inclusions and vacuoles. |
coelomocyte
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WBbt:0005751
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muscle lining of the uterine wall. |
uterine muscle
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WBbt:0005342
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Set of six cells that form a thin cylindrical sheet between pharynx and ring neuropile; no chemical synapses, but gap junctions with muscle arms and RME motor neurons |
GLRL
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lineage name: MSapaaaad |
WBbt:0004784
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Set of six cells that form a thin cylindrical sheet between pharynx and ring neuropile; no chemical synapses, but gap junctions with muscle arms and RME motor neurons |
GLRR
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lineage name: MSppaaaad |
WBbt:0004783
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Head mesodermal cell, function unknown |
head mesodermal cell
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hmc |
WBbt:0004697
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a region around premature germline, consists of cells of pedigree Z1 and Z4, which develops to become the somatic gonad. |
gonadal primordium
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WBbt:0008366
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muscle that controls hermaphrodite rectal opening. |
rectal muscle
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anal muscle |
WBbt:0005803
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Set of six cells that form a thin cylindrical sheet between pharynx and ring neuropile; no chemical synapses, but gap junctions with muscle arms and RME motor neurons |
GLRVL
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lineage name: MSapaaaav |
WBbt:0004782
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Set of six cells that form a thin cylindrical sheet between pharynx and ring neuropile; no chemical synapses, but gap junctions with muscle arms and RME motor neurons |
GLRVR
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lineage name: MSppaaaav |
WBbt:0004781
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Set of six cells that form a thin cylindrical sheet between pharynx and ring neuropile; no chemical synapses, but gap junctions with muscle arms and RME motor neurons |
GLRDL
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lineage name: MSaaaaaal |
WBbt:0004786
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Set of six cells that form a thin cylindrical sheet between pharynx and ring neuropile; no chemical synapses, but gap junctions with muscle arms and RME motor neurons |
GLRDR
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lineage name: MSaaaaaar |
WBbt:0004785
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embryonic cell |
MSpppaaa
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WBbt:0005951
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