Towards a mutation in every gene in Caenorhabditis elegans

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 195-204

  Moerman, Donald G ^a   Barstead, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Array comparative genome hybridization; C. elegans; Mutations; Resequencing; Transposon tagging

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DELETION MUTANT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOME ANALYSIS; KNOCKOUT GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME, HELMINTH; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 48949116611     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/eln016     Document Type: Review

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