Functional exploration of the c. Elegans genome using dna microarrays

Nature Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 4S, 2002, Pages 541-546

  Reinke, Valerie ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME; GENOMICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0036900701     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1039     Document Type: Review

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