The art and design of genetic screens: Caenorhabditis elegans
- 1 May 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Reviews Genetics
- Vol. 3 (5), 356-369
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg794
Abstract
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans was chosen as a model genetic organism because its attributes, chiefly its hermaphroditic lifestyle and rapid generation time, make it suitable for the isolation and characterization of genetic mutants. The most important challenge for the geneticist is to design a genetic screen that will identify mutations that specifically disrupt the biological process of interest. Since 1974, when Sydney Brenner published his pioneering genetic screen, researchers have developed increasingly powerful methods for identifying genes and genetic pathways in C. elegans.Keywords
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