Nematode, an experimental animal in the National BioResource Project

Experimental Animals

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 351-356

  Mitani, Shohei ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Deletion mutants; Functional genomics

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EUKARYOTE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; LONGEVITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HISTOLOGY; JAPAN; MUTATION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

HELMINTH DNA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA, HELMINTH; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; JAPAN; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUTATION;

EID: 73349118456     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.58.351     Document Type: Review

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