WoRMS database

This international database was initiated by the European Register of Marine Species and references the names of marine species known to date. Databases maintained by other organizations such as the Flanders Marine Institute regularly come to enrich the WoRMS database to maintain consistency of the taxonomic nomenclature. 

Instructions for the behaviour of every cell in the bodies of worms, flies and humans will soon reside in public databases for all to read. A complete set of these instructions, packaged as chromosomes, is inherited by most cells in our body. Because of this, many if not most somatic nuclei in mammals are totipotent that is, they are capable of programming all of mammalian development when injected into enucleated eggs (Wilmut et al 1997). Dolly s creation had dramatic practical consequences but its feasibility was never improbable on theoretical grounds. How cells inherit two complete packages of the genome at each cell division is one of the most fundamental questions in biology (Fig. la). 

A domain family that is considerably expanded in nematodes, relative to vertebrates, is the zona pellucida (ZP) domain (Bork and Sander, 1992). In database searches this domain was found in C. elegans cuticlin-1 (cut-1), a component of the nematode cuticle (Sebastiano et al., 1991), and 33 other C. elegans proteins (Table II). On the basis of disulfide-linked domains that accompany the ZP domain in these proteins, it is likely that they localize to the worm s extracellular matrix. Indeed, it is possible that most of these proteins are components of the worm cuticle. The cuticle structure is the multilayered elastic exoskeleton that determines the worm s body shape. Although vertebrates lack an equivalent... 

Welcome to the Oxylipin Profiling Database. http //www.marinespecies.org/index.php Worms, world Register of Marine Species. 

Welcometo ConoServer. Database oftoxins isolated from Conus species, http //www.marinespecies.org/index.php WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species, http / / docmd. com / z iconotide /... 

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