A transparent window into biology: A primer on Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 387-407

  Corsi, Ann K ^a   Wightman, Bruce ^b   Chalfie, Martin ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b MUHLENBERG COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Nematodes; Primer; Single cell analysis; Transparent genetic system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUSION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC MODEL; HERMAPHRODITE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL GENOME; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE GENETICS; SELF FERTILIZATION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENOME; HISTORY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RESEARCH;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; NEMATODA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENOME; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; RESEARCH;

EID: 84931346038     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.176099     Document Type: Article

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