Highly polygenic variation in environmental perception determines Dauer larvae formation in growing populations of Caenorhabditis Elegans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Green, James W M ^a   Stastna, Jana J ^a   Orbidans, Helen E ^a   Harvey, Simon C ^a  

^a CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH RATE; INTROGRESSION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NATH 10 GENE; NEMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REPRODUCIBILITY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; LARVA; METABOLISM; PERCEPTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LARVA; PERCEPTION; PHEROMONES; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84911936971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112830     Document Type: Article

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