RNAi mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans

FEBS Letters

Volumn 579, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 5932-5939

  Grishok, Alla ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; dsRNA; Gene silencing; RNAi

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 26944450901     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.08.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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