Distinct requirements for somatic and germline expression of a generally expressed Caenorhabditis elegans gene

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 227-238

  Kelly, William G ^a   Xu, SiQun ^a   Montgomery, Mary K ^a   Fire, Andrew ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES; GERM CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0030903160     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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