Coexpression of neighboring genes in Caenorhabditis elegans is mostly due to operons and duplicate genes

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 238-243

  Lercher, Martin J ^a   Blumenthal, Thomas ^b   Hurst, Laurence D ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALCULATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; FLY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT; YEAST; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DUPLICATE GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ORDER; GENES, DUPLICATE; GENES, HELMINTH; LINKAGE (GENETICS); OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON;

EID: 0037315946     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.553803     Document Type: Article

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