Sampling from natural populations with RNAi reveals high outcrossing and population structure in Caenorhabditis elegans

Current Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1598-1602

  Sivasundar, Arjun ^a,b   Hey, Jody ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALIFORNIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 24044509751     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.08.034     Document Type: Article

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