Functional genomics in Caenorhabditis elegans: An approach involving comparisons of sequences from related nematodes

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 348-359

  Thacker, Colin ^a   Marra, Marco A ^b   Jones, Alana ^a   Baillie, David L ^c   Rose, Ann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUBTILISINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032923247     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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