Characterization of revertants of unc-93(e1500) in Caenorhabditis elegans induced by N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 597-608

  De Stasio, Elizabeth ^a   Lephoto, Catherine ^a   Azuma, Lynn ^a   Holst, Charles ^a   Stanislaus, Dinesh ^a   Uttam, Jai ^a  

^a LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; GENES, LETHAL; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUTAGENS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030826310     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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