{tag=Anti-cancer mechanism}
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<Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane (2006)> part 5 "Murder or suicide" mentions that apoptosis has two main functions:
* prevent <cancer>
* but it is also an important part of <body development>, e.g. fingers are separated because cells between them kill themselves. Otherwise we would have webbed feet like ducks. There is also a lot of apoptosis during the <development of the brain>. This has been observed notably in <C. elegans> see also: <c. elegans cell lineage>{full}.


Apoptosis

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https://wormwiring.org/

This contains the <C. elegans> connectome.

The browseable thing is this massive interactive <PDF>: https://wormwiring.org/papers/Interactive-Diagram.pdf[]. It lists <neurons> from the <C. elegans cell lineage> using the standard cell names, and how they connect to each other. Some make a surprising ammount of connections.

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WormWiring

{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.


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