Embryonic Development of Caenorhabditis elegans Sense Organs.

ABSTRACT: Caenorhabditis elegans sense organs provide a powerful model for understanding how different cell types interact to assemble a functional organ. Each sense organ is composed of two glial cells, called the sheath and socket, and one or more neurons. A major challenge in studying their development has been the lack of methods to directly observe these structures in the embryo. Here, we mine a recently published high-resolution ultrastructural dataset of a comma-stage embryo that provides an untapped resource for visualizing early developmental events. From this dataset, we reconstructed all head sense organs (two amphid [AM], four cephalic [CEP], six inner labial [IL], four outer labial quadrant [OLQ], and two outer labial lateral [OLL]). Symmetric sense organs were at different stages of mo

SUBMITTER: Wexler LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12400899 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature