Background Resources:

Summary: background information such as what a cell lineage is, how a cell lineage can be done and how cells develop into different cell types is included.

I. A Nobel Prize Winning Project: The completion of C. elegans cell lineage was awarded the Nobel Prize 2002 in Physiology or Medicine.

II. About Cell Lineage: What is a cell lineage?

III. To Lineage - Before: How was the C. elegans cell lineage determined?

IV. To Lineage - Now: How can modern technologies assist the analysis of the C. elegans cell lineage?

V. 4D Embryo Development: What is meant by 3 dimension (3D) and 4 dimension (4D)? how does an embryo develop 4 dimensionally?

VI. Cell Types in Body Plan: How do different cell types in C. elegans develop?

VII. WORMBASE Cell Pedigree: A tutorial to use C. elegans cell pedigree information in the most comprehensive C. elegans research web site - WORMBASE.