CGC Bibliography Paper 3176

Changing styles in C. elegans genetics.

Hodgkin J, Herman RK

Medline:

98441866

Citation:

Trends in Genetics 14: 352-357 1998

Type:

REVIEW

Genes:

Abstract:

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 celebrity as the owner of the first animal genome to be sequenced in its entirety. In this review we consider the ways in which genetical investigations of this species have begun to change and what some of the consequences of the completion of the sequence are likely