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Mutations affecting the chemosensory neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics - 1 Jan 1995
Starich T A, Herman R K, Kari C K, Yeh W H, Schackwitz W S, Schuyler M W, Collet J, Thomas J H, Riddle D L
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We have identified and characterized 95 mutations that reduce or abolish dye filling of amphid and phasmid neurons and that have little effect on viability, fertility or movement. Twenty-seven mutations occurred spontaneously in strains with a high frequency of transposon insertion. Sixty-eight were isolated after treatment with EMS. All of the mutations result in defects in one or more chemosensory responses,...
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