Alignment of the genetic and physical maps in the dpy-5 bli-4 (I) region of C. elegans by the serial cosmid rescue of lethal mutations

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 255, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 78-95

  McDowall, J S ^a   Rose, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Cosmid rescue; Lethal mutations; Mapping; Transgenics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; LETHAL MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COSMIDS; CROSSES, GENETIC; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENES, HELMINTH; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030751347     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050476     Document Type: Article

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