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Molecular analysis of the unc-54 myosin heavy-chain gene of Caenorhabditis elegans

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The properties of a small internal deletion mutant, E675, have been exploited in the molecular cloning of the unc-54 gene. This mutation uniquely identifies unc-54 sequences as molecules of altered length in E675 and provides a genetic and physical marker for the active gene, its messenger RNA and its protein product.

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    Alexander R. MacLeod, Jonathan Karn & Sydney Brenner

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MacLeod, A., Karn, J. & Brenner, S. Molecular analysis of the unc-54 myosin heavy-chain gene of Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 291, 386–390 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/291386a0

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