Duplicate genes and robustness to transient gene knock-downs in Caenorhabditis elegans

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1534, 2004, Pages 89-96

  Conant, Gavin C ^a   Wagner, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Gene duplication; Mutational robustness

Indexed keywords

RNA;

MUTATION; NEMATODE; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DUPLICATE GENE; EXPERIMENT; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME ANALYSIS; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0346672411     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2560     Document Type: Article

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