Mapping quantitative trait loci affecting life history traits in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 801-817

  Shook, David R ^a   Brooks, Anne ^a   Johnson, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 4; EPISTASIS; FERTILITY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; HATCHING; HERMAPHRODITISM; LIFESPAN; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FERTILITY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HERMAPHRODITISM; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0029973858     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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