One perfect worm

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 405-407

  Phillips, Patrick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX DETERMINATION; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA INTERFERENCE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33746265276     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2006.06.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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