Some references associated with the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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The C. elegans Sequencing Consortium (1998) Genome sequence of the nematode C. elegans: a platform for investigating biology. Science 282: 2012-2018

Coulson A, Sulston J, Brenner S, Karn J (1986) Toward a physical map of the genome of the nematode C. elegans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 83: 7821-7825

Ellis HM, Horvitz HR (1986) Genetic control of programmed cell death in the nematode C. elegans. Cell 44: 817-829

Ellis RE, Jacobson DM, Horvitz HR (1991) Genes required for the engulfment of cell corpses during programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 129: 79-94

Hengartner MO, Ellis RE, Horvitz HR (1992) The Caenorhabditis elegans gene ced-9 protects cells from programmed cell death. Nature 356: 494-499

Hengartner MO, Horvitz HR (1994) C. elegans cell survival gene ced-9 encodes a functional homolog of the mammalian proto-oncogene bcl-2. Cell 76: 665-676

Sulston J, Albertson D, Thomson J (1980) The C. elegans male: Postembryonic development of nongonadal structures. Developmental Biology 78:542-576

Sulston JE, Brenner S (1974) The DNA of C. elegans. Genetics 77: 95-104

Sulston JE, Horvitz HR (1977) Post-embryonic cell lineages of the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans. Developmental Biology 56: 110-156

Sulston JE, Schierenberg E, White JG, Thomson JN (1983) The embryonic cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans. Developmental Biology 100: 64-119

Ward S, Thomson N, White JG, Brenner S (1975) Electron microscopical reconstruction of the anterior sensory anatomy of the nematode C. elegans. Journal of Comparative Neurology 160: 313-337

White JG, Southgate E, Thomson JN, Brenner S (1976) The structure of the ventral nerve cord of C. elegans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 275B: 327-348.

White JG, Southgate E, Thomson JN, Brenner S (1986) The structure of the nervous system of the nematode C. elegans. [aka "The Mind of a Worm"] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 314B: 1-340

Xue D, Horvitz HR (1995) Inhibition of the Caenorhabditis elegans cell-death protease CED-3 by a ced-3 cleavage site in baculovirus p35. Nature 377: 248-251

Xue D, Shaham S, Horvitz HR (1996) The Caenorhabditis elegans cell-death protein CED-3 is a cysteine protease with substrate specificities similar to those of the human CPP32 protease. Genes & Development 10: 1073-1083

Yuan JY, Horvitz HR (1990) The Caenorhabditis elegans genes ced-3 and ced-4 act cell autonomously to cause programmed cell death. Developmental Biology 138: 33-41

Yuan JY, Horvitz HR (1992) The Caenorhabditis elegans cell-death gene ced-4 encodes a novel protein and is expressed during the period of extensive programmed cell death. Development 116: 309-320

Yuan J, Shaham S, Ledoux S, Ellis HM, Horvitz HR (1993) The C. elegans cell death gene ced-3 encodes a protein similar to mammalian interleukin-1B-converting enzyme. Cell 75: 641-652