The world of a worm: A framework for Caenorhabditis evolution. Workshop on the Study of Evolutionary Biology with Caenorhabditis elegans and Closely Related Species

EMBO Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 981-984

  Carvalho, Sara ^a   Barrière, Antoine ^b   Pires daSilva, André ^c  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; CELL DEATH SPECIFICATION 2 PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN MSH2; PROTEIN MSH6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS JAPONICA; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EXON; FEMINIZATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERMAPHRODITISM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES HABITAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; WORKSHOP;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33749239276     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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