Animals require sufficient intake of a variety of nutrients to support their development, somatic maintenance and reproduction. An adequate diet provides cell building blocks, chemical energy to drive cellular processes and essential nutrients that cannot be synthesised by the animal, or at least not in the required amounts. Dietary requirements of nematodes, including Caenorhabditis elegans have been extensively studied with the major aim to develop a chemically defined axenic medium that would support their growth and reproduction. At the same time, these studies helped elucidating important aspects of nutrition-related biochemistry and metabolism as well as the establishment of C. elegans as a powerful model in studying evolutionarily conserved pathways, and the influence of the diet on health.

中文翻译：

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秀丽隐杆线虫的营养需求。

动物需要摄入足够的各种营养以支持它们的发育，躯体维持和繁殖。充足的饮食可以提供细胞构造要素，化学能量来驱动细胞进程以及动物无法合成或至少不能以所需量合成的必需营养素。线虫（包括秀丽隐杆线虫）的饮食需求已得到广泛研究，其主要目的是开发一种化学定义的轴突培养基，以支持其生长和繁殖。同时，这些研究有助于阐明营养相关的生物化学和代谢的重要方面，以及建立线虫作为研究进化保守途径的有效模型以及饮食对健康的影响。