The draft genome sequence of the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae, a companion to C. elegans

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Gupta, Bhagwati P ^a   Sternberg, Paul W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA, HELMINTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0347756679     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-12-238     Document Type: Short Survey

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