Fig. 1
From: Biology and genome of a newly discovered sibling species of Caenorhabditis elegans
C. inopinata biology compared with the sibling species C. elegans. a DIC microscopic views of C. inopinata (adult female; bottom) with C. elegans (hermaphrodite; top). Scale bar: 100 μm. b Key morphological characters of C. inopinata. a: right lateral view of stomatal part in different focal planes showing dorsal tooth (left) and right subventral tooth (right) with arrow heads. b: ventral view of male tail. c: female tail in right lateral (left) and ventral (right) view showing phasmids in arrowheads. d: face view of stomatal part of adult. e: face view of stomatal part of dauer-like juvenile. f: left lateral view of male tail. g: ventral view of male cloacal opening. Scale bars: 20 μm for a–c, 2 μm for d–g. c Life cycle of C. inopinata. The nematodes multiply in fresh syconia of Ficus septica, which has a mutualistic association with the pollinating wasp Ceratosolen sp. When the syconia mature nematodes in the dauer form disperse to new young syconia using the wasps as a vector
