{tag=Cell lineage}

Exactly 1033 <somatic cells> on male, 959 on hermaphrodite, every time, counted as of 2020. A beauty.

Exactly 131 commit <apoptosis> in the hermaphrodite.

https://www.wormatlas.org/celllineages.html contains the full lineage as some huge and impossible to view images. This image was taken directly from <The embryonic cell lineage of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans> where it is split across many pages, it is a thing of beauty on the PDF.

https://www.wormatlas.org/celllistsulston.htm contains a non-hierarchical table with the cells and their names.


C elegans cell lineage

ID: c-elegans-cell-lineage