How the worm was won: The C. elegans genome sequencing project

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 51-58

  Wilson, Richard K ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENOME; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; COSMIDS; ENGLAND; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; MISSOURI; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033082344     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(98)01666-7     Document Type: Review

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