Natural variation and copulatory plug formation in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 149-164

  Hodgkin, Jonathan ^a   Doniach, Tabitha ^a,b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COPULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030945064     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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