Identification of 1088 new transposon insertions of Caenorhabditis elegans: A pilot study toward large-scale screens

Genetics

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 521-524

  Martin, Edwige ^a   Laloux, Hélène ^a   Couette, Gaëlic ^a   Alvarez, Thierry ^a   Bessou, Catherine ^a   Hauser, Oliver ^a   Sookhareea, Satis ^b   Labouesse, Michel ^b   Ségalat, Laurent ^a,c  

^a CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EXON; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MUTANT; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEMATODA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036742551     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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