Worm Breeding for Dummies: A guide to genetic mapping in C. elegans
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What this guide is and isn't. This guide is neither a basic text in Mendelian genetics nor is it in any way a comprehensive description of C. elegans biology. Detailed information about the latter can be gleaned from C. elegans I and C. elegans II by Cold Spring Harbor Press Inc. This guide does assume a working knowledge of basic genetics and will be of limited use to those who lack some background in this area. It is our hope that this text may serve as a supplement to existing published materials and that it will facilitate the successful breeding of worms by those new to the field.
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