CGC Bibliography Paper 5210

What does a worm want with 20,000 genes?

Hodgkin J

Medline:

11737938

Citation:

Genome Biology 2: 2008.-2008. 2001

Type:

REVIEW

Genes:

egl-1 glp-1 let-7 lin-4 lin-12

Abstract:

The number of genes predicted for the Caenorhabditis elegans genome is remarkably high: appoximately 20,000, if both protein-coding and RNA-coding genes are counted. This article discusses possible explanations for such a high value.