Specialized Chromosomes and Their Uses in Caenorhabditis elegans

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 106, Issue , 2011, Pages 23-64

  Jones, Martin R ^a   Lohn, Zoe ^a   Rose, Ann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Array; Deletion; Hybridization; Inversion; Rearrangement; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355184632     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-544172-8.00002-5     Document Type: Chapter

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