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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2017

A maternal-effect selfish genetic element in

Eyal Ben-David, Alejandro Burga, Leonid Kruglyak

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.

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69citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

69 citing papers in PubMed, 120 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eyal Ben-DavidDepartment of Human Genetics, Department of Biological Chemistry, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. ebd@ucla.edu aburga@mednet.ucla.edu lkruglyak@mednet.ucla.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0514-0400
Alejandro BurgaDepartment of Human Genetics, Department of Biological Chemistry, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. ebd@ucla.edu aburga@mednet.ucla.edu lkruglyak@mednet.ucla.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0211-4357
Leonid KruglyakDepartment of Human Genetics, Department of Biological Chemistry, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. ebd@ucla.edu aburga@mednet.ucla.edu lkruglyak@mednet.ucla.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8065-3057
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Genetic dissection of transcriptional and organismal phenotypes in C. elegansR01HG004321 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI KRUGLYAK, LEONID · 2007 to 2014
$1.9M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG004321
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Selfish genetic elements spread in natural populations and have an important role in genome evolution. We discovered a selfish element causing embryonic lethality in crosses between wild strains of the nematode

Indexed as

Genes, LethalRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsEmbryo, NonmammalianFemaleMaleMaternal InheritanceCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsPHA-1 protein, C elegans

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PMID28495877
PMCPMC6251971
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