High genetic diversity in the chemoreceptor superfamily of Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1985-1996

  Stewart, Mary K ^a   Clark, Nathaniel L ^a   Merrihew, Gennifer ^a   Galloway, Evan M ^a   Thomas, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SRH GENE; STOP CODON; STR GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMORECEPTORS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CODON, TERMINATOR; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE DELETION; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 18844457074     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.035329     Document Type: Article

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