Rapid expression screening of Caenorhabditis elegans homeobox open reading frames using a two-step polymerase chain reaction promoter-gfp reporter construction technique

Gene

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 127-135

  Cassata, Giuseppe ^a   Kagoshima, Hiroshi ^a   F Prétôt, René ^a   Aspöck, Gudrun ^a   Niklaus, Gisela ^a   Bürglin, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; ceh 38; Expression pattern; Homeobox gene; Long range PCR

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HYPODERRIS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032575033     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00137-1     Document Type: Article

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