Completely Sequenced Genomes
worms

Eukaryote [superkindom] -> Animalia [kindom] -> Nematoda [phylum]

Caenorhaditis elegans page from Nature magazine
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Eukaryota [superkindom] -> Animalia/Metazoa [kindom] -> Nematoda [phylum] -> Chromadorea [class] -> Rhabditida [order] -> Rhabditidae [family] -> (Caenorhabditis elegans)
Year Name Strain Size
[Exact Length]
Publication
[Submitted Date]
Predicted Genes
[Confirmed]
Sequence
[GenBank #]
Web
1998 Caenorhabditis elegans . 97 Mb
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Washington U, Science, 282(5396):2012-2018 (1998). Erratum: 283(5398):35(1999), 283(5410):2103(1999), 285(5433):1493(1999) 16332?19099? WU [usa] , NCBI [usa] WU [usa] ,
sanger [uk]

for each chromosome
(warning: there are two versions of the sequence from NCBI/GENBANK. one from 1999, another updated on 2001. the two sets of sequences have different lengths!

Year Chromosome Size
[Exact Length]
Pub
Predicted Genes
[Confirmed]
Sequence
[GenBank #]
Web
1998 1 16.2Mb [16,183,833]
or 15.1Mb [15,059,339]
. num genes [confirmed] [chr_I], [NC_003279] web
1998 2 17Mb [17,004,925]
or 15.2Mb [15,173,999]
. num genes [confirmed] [chr_II], [NC_003280] web
1998 3 12.1Mb [12,114,540]
or 13.9Mb [13,855,177]
. num genes [confirmed] [chr_III], [NC_003281] web
1998 4 15.9Mb [15,887,371]
or 17.5Mb [17,484,798]
. num genes [confirmed] [chr_IV], [NC_003282] web
1998 5 21.3Mb [21,280,512]
or 20.9Mb [20,915,320]
. num genes [confirmed] [chr_V], [NC_003283] web
1998 X 17.6Mb [17,624,844]
or 17.7Mb [17,748,731]
. num genes [confirmed] [chr_X], [NC_003284] web