What does a worm want with 20,000 genes?
Open Access
- 17 October 2001
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 2 (11)
- https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2001-2-11-comment2008
Abstract
The number of genes predicted for the Caenorhabditis elegans genome is remarkably high: approximately 20,000, if both protein-coding and RNA-coding genes are counted. This article discusses possible explanations for such a high value.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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