Low impact of germline transposition on the rate of mildly deleterious mutation in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2129-2136

  Bégin, Mattieu ^a   Schoen, Daniel J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; FERTILITY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOTYPE; GERM CELLS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33845788256     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.065508     Document Type: Article

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