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Science,
1999]
Elizabeth Pennisi, in her excellent commentary "Worming secrets from the C. elegans" (News Focus, 11 Dec 1998, p.1972), states that "The first person to sense that the worm might take on such a prominent role in biology was molecular biologist Sydney Brenner." I am sure that Brenner would wish to acknowledge the role that Ellsworth C. Dougherty played in this matter. Dougherty originally described in 1949, "[a] new species of the free-living nematode genus Rhabditis of interest in comparative physiology and genetics".