C. elegans: Methods and Applications

Molecular biology has driven a powerful reductionist, or “molecule—c— tric,” approach to biological research in the last half of the 20th century. Red— tionism is the attempt to explain complex phenomena by defining the functional properties of the individual components of the system. Bloom (1) has referred to the post—genome sequencing era as the end of “naïve reductionism. ” Red— tionist methods will continue to be an essential element of all biological research efforts, but “naïve reduct...