The genome sequence of Caenorhabditis briggsae: A platform for comparative genomics

PLoS Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Stein, Lincoln D ^a   Bao, Zhirong ^b,h   Blasiar, Darin ^b   Blumenthal, Thomas ^c   Brent, Michael R ^d   Chen, Nansheng ^a   Chinwalla, Asif ^b   Clarke, Laura ^e   Clee, Chris ^e   Coghlan, Avril ^f   Coulson, Alan ^e,l   D'Eustachio, Peter ^a,g   Fitch, David H A ^m   Fulton, Lucinda A ^b   Fulton, Robert E ^b   Griffiths Jones, Sam ^e   Harris, Todd W ^a   Hillier, LaDeana W ^b,h   Kamath, Ravi ^e   Kuwabara, Patricia E ^e   Mardis, Elaine R ^b   Marra, Marco A ^b,i   Miner, Tracie L ^b   Minx, Patrick ^b   Mullikin, James C ^e,j   Plumb, Robert W ^e   Rogers, Jane ^e   Schein, Jacqueline E ^b,i   Sohrmann, Marc ^e   Spieth, John ^b   Stajich, Jason E ^k   Wei, Chaochun ^d   Willey, David ^e   Wilson, Richard K ^b   Durbin, Richard ^e   Waterston, Robert H ^b,h   more..

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^k DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^m NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; SPLICED LEADER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME; CODON; DATA BASE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENETICS; GENOME; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; GENOMICS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; INTRONS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4243088097     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0000045     Document Type: Article

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