A survey of new temperature-sensitive, embryonic-lethal mutations in C. elegans: 24 alleles of thirteen genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  O'Rourke, Sean M ^a   Carter, Clayton ^a   Carter, Luke ^a   Christensen, Sara N ^a   Jones, Minh P ^a   Nash, Bruce ^a   Price, Meredith H ^a   Turnbull, Douglas W ^a   Garner, Aleena R ^a   Hamill, Danielle R ^a   Osterberg, Valerie R ^a   Lyczak, Rebecca ^a   Madison, Erin E ^a   Nguyen, Michael H ^a   Sandberg, Nathan A ^a   Sedghi, Noushin ^a   Willis, John H ^a   Yochem, John ^a   Johnson, Eric A ^a   Bowerman, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; DYNACTIN; KATANIN; LIT 1 PROTEIN; MEX 1 PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2A; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; POLO LIKE KINASE; POLO LIKE KINASE 1; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2; SPD 2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; ZYG 1 PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LETHALITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STOP CODON; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; LARVA; LETHAL GENE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERATURE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, LETHAL; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79952293258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016644     Document Type: Article

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