Thermal response of Heterorhabditis bacteriophora transformed with the Caenorhabditis elegans hsp70 encoding gene

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 281, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 164-170

  Hashmi, Sarwar ^a,c   Hashmi, Ghazala ^a   Glazer, Itamar ^b   Gaugler, Randy ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE TRANSFER; HEAT SHOCK; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEAT; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; RHABDITOIDEA; RNA, MESSENGER; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032526378     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(19980615)281:3<164::AID-JEZ2>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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