Caenorhabditis elegans — Applications to nematode genomics

Comparative and Functional Genomics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 194-202

  Gregory, William F ^a   Parkinson, John ^a  

^a Institute of Cell   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis briggsae; Caenorhabditis elegans; Functional genomics; Genome; Nematode; Parasites; RNAi

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOMICS; GLOBODERA PALLIDA; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; INTERNET; NEMATODE; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRONGYLOIDES; TRANS SPLICING; TRANSGENICS; TRICHURIS;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0037959926     PISSN: 15316912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cfg.260     Document Type: Review

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