National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 21, 2019

Preferred Name	Caenorhabditis elegans
ID	http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C14303
ALT_DEFINITION	A species of nematode that is widely used in biological, biochemical, and genetic studies. parasitic roundworm; important research model in animal biology, especially for the genetic and molecular basis of development and behavior.
code	C14303
DEFINITION	A roundworm of the phylum Nematoda often utilized as a biological model system for research.
FULL_SYN	C. elegans
label	Caenorhabditis elegans
Legacy_Concept_Name	Caenorhabditis_elegans
NCBI_Taxon_ID	6239
Preferred_Name	Caenorhabditis elegans
prefixIRI	C14303
prefLabel	Caenorhabditis elegans
Semantic_Type	Eukaryote
UMLS_CUI	C0162610
subClassOf	http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C14248

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Mapping To	Ontology	Source
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D017173	Medical Subject Headings	LOOM
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_6239	Protein Ontology	LOOM
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_6239	MicroRNA Ontology	LOOM
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_6239	Ontology for Biomedical Investigations	LOOM