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Science 16 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5388, pp. 430 - 431
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5388.430

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REVERSE GENETICS:
RNAi in C. elegans: Soaking in the Genome Sequence

Hiroaki Tabara, Alla Grishok, and Craig C. Mello


The authors are at the Cancer Center, Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 373 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Craig.Mello{at}ummed.edu

Mailbox: www.sciencemag.org/cgi/dmail?53881

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