THE DNA OF CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS
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- 1 May 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 77 (1) , 95-104
- https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/77.1.95
Abstract
Chemical analysis and a study of renaturation kinetics show that the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, has a haploid DNA content of 8 x IO7 base pairs (20 times the genome of E. coli). Eighty-three percent of the DNA sequences are unique. The mean base composition is 36% GC; a small component, containing the rRNA cistrons, has a base composition of 51% GC. The haploid genome contains about 300 genes for 4s RNA, 110 for 5s RNA, and 55 for (18 + 28)S RNA.Keywords
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