Induction, detection and isolation of temperature-sensitive lethal and/or sterile mutants in nematodes The free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
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Introduction, detection et isolement de mutants thermosensibles létaux etlou stériles chez les nématodes. I . Le némafode libre Caenorhabditis elegans. Grâce à l'élaboration d'un protocole original de détection et d'isolement des mutations thermosensibles létales etJou stériles, spécifique du nématode hermaphrodite autofécond Caenorhabditis elegans, souche Bergerac (Abdulkader & Brun, 1976), 25 d'entre elles ont été obtenues. Les conditions optimales de traitement par l'agent mutagene e t de détection de telles mutations sont discutées.
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