Natural variation of model mutant phenotypes in Ciona intestinalis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Sordino, Paolo ^a   Andreakis, Nikos ^a   Brown, Euan R ^a   Leccia, Nicola I ^a,b   Squarzoni, Paola ^a   Tarallo, Raffaella ^a   Alfano, Christian ^a,c   Caputi, Luigi ^a   D'Ambrosio, Palmira ^a   Daniele, Paola ^a   D'Aniello, Enrico ^a   D'Aniello, Salvatore ^a,d   Maiella, Sylvie ^a,e   Miraglia, Valentina ^a   Russo, Monia Teresa ^a   Sorrenti, Gerarda ^a,f   Branno, Margherita ^a   Cariello, Lucio ^a   Cirino, Paola ^a   Locascio, Annamaria ^a   Spagnuolo, Antonietta ^a   Zanetti, Laura ^a   Ristoratore, Filomena ^a   more..

^a STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^b G RUMMO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^f CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; STEREOTYPY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; UROCHORDATA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 48649105292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002344     Document Type: Article

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