The rate of spontaneous mutation for life-history traits in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 119-129

  Vassilieva, Larissa L ^a   Lynch, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DELETION MUTANT; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; HERITABILITY; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MUTATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032897573     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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