Nematode Worm 线虫动物门
In a small worm, say the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, there are 959 cells, making it the ideal model to solve this problem.
以某种小型土壤线虫为例，它有959个细胞，是解决这一问题的理想模型。
In 1972 Sydney Brenner, a biologist then at Cambridge University, decided to work out the connections of every cell in the nervous system of a small nematode worm called C. elegans.
1972年当时在剑桥大学的一位生物学家Sydney Brenner，决定计算出一种称作c . elegans的小线虫纲蠕虫的神经系统的每一个细胞连接。
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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