Green fluorescent protein/β-galactosidase double reporters for visualizing Drosophila gene expression patterns

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 338-347

  Timmons, Lisa ^a   Becker, Jodi ^a   Barthmaier, Peter ^a   Fyrberg, Christine ^a   Shearn, Allen ^a   Fyrberg, Eric ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila development; Enhancer trap; Green fluorescent protein

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARVA; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PUPA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

AEQUOREA VICTORIA; ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MELANOGASTER; VICTORIA;

EID: 0030853366     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1997)20:4<338::AID-DVG5>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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