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SUBMITTER: Lezzerini M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4416053 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lezzerini Marco M van de Ven Koen K Veerman Martijn M Brul Stanley S Budovskaya Yelena V YV
PloS one 20150430 4
In nematodes, genome-wide RNAi-screening has been widely used as a rapid and efficient method to identify genes involved in the aging processes. By far the easiest way of inducing RNA interference (RNAi) in Caenorhabditis elegans is by feeding Escherichia coli that expresses specific double stranded RNA (dsRNA) to knockdown translation of targeted mRNAs. However, it has been shown that E. coli is mildly pathogenic to C. elegans and this pathogenicity might influence aging and the accuracy of the ...[more]