elegans

基本解释

Hymenocera elegans here is found in the waters off of Indonesia.
它们是在印尼附近的海域里发现的鳕鱼的线虫。
The research was performed on C. elegans, tiny roundworms that typically live an average of two weeks.
这一研究实验是在线虫身上进行的，这是一种极小的圆虫，他们的平均寿命只有两周左右。
He tested his idea in a tiny nematode worm called Caenorhabditis elegans and, in 1994, published a paper showing how touch-receptor proteins are distributed around this worm.
他于1994年在一种称为秀丽隠杆线虫的小型线虫中试验了这一想法，标示出接触受体是如何在整个虫体中分布的，并据此发表了一篇文章。

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