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The draft genome sequence of the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae, a companion to C. elegans

Bhagwati P Gupta and Paul W Sternberg*

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

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Genome Biology 2003, 4:238 doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-12-238

Published: 18 November 2003

Abstract

The publication of the draft genome sequence of Caenorhabditis briggsae improves the annotation of the genome of its close relative Caenorhabditis elegans and will facilitate comparative genomics and the study of the evolutionary changes during development.