Mainstreaming Caenorhabditis elegans in experimental evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1778, 2014, Pages

  Gray, Jeremy C ^a   Cutter, Asher D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis; Evolution; Experimental evolution

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LABORATORY METHOD; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NEMATODE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

CAENORHABDITIS; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETICS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84892606342     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.3055     Document Type: Review

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