A Caenorhabditis elegans locomotion phenotype caused by transgenic repeats of the hlh-17 promoter sequence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Stout Jr , Randy F ^a,c   Grubišić, Vladimir ^a   Parpura, Vladimir ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Rijeka   (Croatia)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HLH-17 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; LOCOMOTION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; LOCOMOTION; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84894240040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081771     Document Type: Article

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