High frequency of cryptic deleterious mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans

Science

Volumn 285, Issue 5434, 1999, Pages 1748-1751

  Davies, Esther K ^a   Peters, Andrew D ^a   Keightley, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; ETHYL METHANESULFONATE; GENES, HELMINTH; HERMAPHRODITISM; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTAGENS; POINT MUTATION; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033543507     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5434.1748     Document Type: Article

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