High-frequency generation of transgenic zebrafish which reliably express GFP in whole muscles or the whole body by using promoters of zebrafish origin

Developmental Biology

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 289-299

  Higashijima, Shin ichi ^a,d   Okamoto, Hitoshi ^b   Ueno, Naoto ^a   Hotta, Yoshiki ^c   Eguchi, Goro ^a,e  

^a National Institute for Basic Biology   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^e KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031573942     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8779     Document Type: Article

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