title: What does a worm want with 20,000 genes?
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.
authors.affiliation: Genetics Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK. jah@bioch.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hodgkin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000235:genetics*; D004463:Ecology; D017238:Genes, Helminth; D018510:RNA, Helminth / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D018510:RNA, Helminth