title: Evolution: an ecological context for C. elegans.
abstract: Despite low global diversity among natural populations of Caenorhabditis elegans, neighboring populations can be as genetically distinct as strains from different continents, probably owing to transient bottlenecks and ongoing dispersal as a dauer larva. Selfing predominates in the wild, but rare outcrossing may also play an important role.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, New York University, New York 10003, USA.
authors.forename: David H A
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Fitch
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D005075:Biological Evolution; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000502:physiology*; D004463:Ecology; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D007814:Larva / Q000502:physiology; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012098:Reproduction / Q000502:physiology; D013045:Species Specificity