Changing styles in C. elegans genetics.

doi:10.1016/s0168-9525(98)01543-1

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Changing styles in C. elegans genetics.

Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Sept 1998

Hodgkin J, Herman R K

Abstract excerpt

The past 30 years have taken the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans from obscurity, as a nondescript member of a large but unglamorous invertebrate phylum, to a position as one of the major model organisms. This year, it will acquire a particular celeberity as the owner of the first animal genome to...

Topics

Animals
Caenorhabditis elegans
Genetic Techniques
Genome
Mutation
Phenotype
Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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