RNAi in <i>C. elegans</i> : Soaking in the Genome Sequence
SciencePublished 16 October 1998
Hiroaki Tabara, Alla Grishok, Craig C. Mello
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T he completion of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome sequence represents a major milestone in a journey initiated by Sydney Brenner some 30 years ago. The goal then as now was to discover how genetic information specifies the development, anatomy, and behavior of a simple animal. Bringing the full
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