The mec-4 gene is a member of a family of Caenorhabditis elegans genes that can mutate to induce neuronal degeneration

Nature

Volumn 349, Issue 6310, 1991, Pages 588-593

  Driscoll, Monica ^a   Chalfie, Martin ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; GENE LOCUS; MUTATION; NEMATODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENES, STRUCTURAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MECHANORECEPTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOUCH;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0026089774     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/349588a0     Document Type: Article

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