A fluorescent quantitative PCR approach to map gene deletions in the Drosophila genome

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1313-1316

  Chiang, Pei Wen ^a   Wei, Wan Li ^a   Gibson, Kristi ^a   Bodmer, Rolf ^b   Kurnit, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032738338     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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