Duplication and Retention Biases of Essential and Non-Essential Genes Revealed by Systematic Knockdown Analyses

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Woods, Shane ^a   Coghlan, Avril ^b,c   Rivers, David ^a   Warnecke, Tobias ^a,d   Jeffries, Sean J ^a   Kwon, Taejoon ^a   Rogers, Anthony ^c   Hurst, Laurence D ^d   Ahringer, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, DUPLICATE; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84878498140     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003330     Document Type: Article

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