The laboratory domestication of Caenorhabditis elegans

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 224-231

  Sterken, Mark G ^a   Snoek, L Basten ^a   Kammenga, Jan E ^a   Andersen, Erik C ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerotaxis; Caenorhabditis elegans; Laboratory derived; Npr 1; Selection

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBIN; GLOBIN 5; N ACETYLTRANSFERASE HOMOLOG 10; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AXENIC CULTURE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DOMESTICATION; FERTILITY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LARVAL STAGE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84928760790     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 13624555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2015.02.009     Document Type: Review

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