mRNA surveillance mitigates genetic dominance in Caenorhabditis elegans

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 260, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 176-184

  Cali, B M ^a,b   Anderson, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; mRNA surveillance; Nonsense mediated mRNA decay; smg Genes

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HETEROZYGOTE; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, LETHAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; MUTATION; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0031766755     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050883     Document Type: Article

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