Spontaneous mutations decrease sensitivity of gene expression to random environmental variation in Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Baer, Charles F ^a   Denver, Dee R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; MUTATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77649322675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008750     Document Type: Article

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