High-throughput isolation of caenorhabditis elegans deletion mutants

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 859-867

  Liu, Leo X ^a   Spoerke, Jill M ^d   Mulligan, Evan L ^d   Chen, Jing ^b   Reardon, Brian ^d   Westlund, Bethany ^d   Sun, Lin ^c   Abel, Ken ^d   Armstrong, Barbara ^d   Hardiman, Gary ^d   King, Judith ^d   McCague, Lisa ^d   Basson, Michael ^d   Clover, Ralph ^d   Johnson, Carl D ^d  

^a Cambria Pharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

^b Therion Biologics Corporation   (United States)

^c Phylos Inc   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MUTAGEN; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; OCTANE; TRIMETHYLPSORALEN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DELETION MUTANT; DNA TEMPLATE; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE DELETION; GENE LIBRARY; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; METAZOA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032857154     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.9.9.859     Document Type: Article

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