Mutations affecting the chemosensory neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans.

doi:10.1093/genetics/139.1.171

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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 w...

Topics

Animals
Behavior, Animal
Caenorhabditis elegans
Chemoreceptor Cells
Chromosome Mapping
Genes, Helminth
Genetic Complementation Test
Genetic Linkage
Mutation
Neurons

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