New developmental insights from high-throughput biological analysis in Caenorhabditis elegans

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 306-314

  Labbe J C ^a,b   Roy, Richard R ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Development; Human diseases; Phenotypic analysis; RNAi

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARCINOGENESIS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, LETHAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOMICS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33645465942     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2006.00587.x     Document Type: Article

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