A screen for nonconditional dauer-constitutive mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans.

doi:10.1093/genetics/136.3.879

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A screen for nonconditional dauer-constitutive mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Genetics - 1 Mar 1994

Malone E A, Thomas J H

Abstract excerpt

In Caenorhabditis elegans, formation of the developmentally arrested dauer larva is induced by high levels of a constitutively secreted pheromone. Synergy between two groups of incompletely penetrant dauer-constitutive (Daf-c) mutations has recently led to a proposal that these two groups of gene...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Caenorhabditis elegans
Genes, Helminth
Larva
Models, Genetic
Mutagenesis
Mutation
Phenotype
Pheromones
Temperature

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