Tools for genetic mapping and gene identification in Caenorhabditis briggsae
- 1Ohio State University
Abstract
The nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae serves as an important companion species for Caenorhabditis elegans for comparative studies. Because C. briggsae exhibits androdioecious reproduction and ease of laboratory culture similar to C. elegans, it has long been used for genetic studies in cross-species comparisons of mutant phenotypes to uncover the evolution of gene function. Here, we provide an updated toolkit for C. briggsae genetic experiments, leveraging the resource of recently improved C. briggsae genome sequence assemblies with variant mapping tools and gene identification methods. We identify and validate a set of indel variants between CGC2 (AF16) and two divergent strains, HK104 and VX34. We then use these variants to genetically map 10 previously isolated mutations and identify the impacted genes using high-throughput sequencing. We combine these new genes with others curated from the literature into an updated map with 73 genes, providing an enriched resource for C. briggsae genetic studies.
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BibTeX
@misc{lyu2026tools,
title = {{Tools for genetic mapping and gene identification in Caenorhabditis briggsae}},
author = {H. Lyu and N. S. Jhaveri and L. M. O'Connor and R. E. Tanny and K. Freytag and C. Genova and B. Gupta and E. C. Andersen and H. M. Chamberlin},
howpublished = {bioRxiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.64898/2026.11.05.764684},
url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.05.764684v1},
note = {CC BY-NC},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Tools for genetic mapping and gene identification in Caenorhabditis briggsae
AU - H. Lyu
AU - N. S. Jhaveri
AU - L. M. O'Connor
AU - R. E. Tanny
AU - K. Freytag
AU - C. Genova
AU - B. Gupta
AU - E. C. Andersen
AU - H. M. Chamberlin
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/05
PB - bioRxiv
DO - 10.64898/2026.11.05.764684
UR - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.05.764684v1
AB - The nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae serves as an important companion species for Caenorhabditis elegans for comparative studies. Because C. briggsae exhibits androdioecious reproduction and ease of laboratory culture similar to C. elegans, it has long been used for genetic studies in cross-species comparisons of mutant phenotypes to uncover the evolution of gene function. Here, we provide an updated toolkit for C. briggsae genetic experiments, leveraging the resource of recently improved C. briggsae genome sequence assemblies with variant mapping tools and gene identification methods. We identify and validate a set of indel variants between CGC2 (AF16) and two divergent strains, HK104 and VX34. We then use these variants to genetically map 10 previously isolated mutations and identify the impacted genes using high-throughput sequencing. We combine these new genes with others curated from the literature into an updated map with 73 genes, providing an enriched resource for C. briggsae genetic studies.
ER -