Medical significance of Caenorhabditis elegans

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-30

  Aboobaker, A Aziz ^a   Blaxter, Mark L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Evolution; Functional genomics; Gene function; Genetics; Human disease; Model organism; Parasitism; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE FUNCTION; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0033981361     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07853890008995906     Document Type: Article

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