The majority of animal genes are required for wild-type fitness

Cell

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 792-802

  Ramani, Arun K ^a   Chuluunbaatar, Tungalag ^a   Verster, Adrian J ^a   Na, Hong ^a   Vu, Victoria ^a   Pelte, Nadge ^a   Wannissorn, Nattha ^a   Jiao, Alan ^a   Fraser, Andrew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE SILENCING; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84857321619     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.01.019     Document Type: Article

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