Faithful expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP) in transgenic zebrafish embryos under control of zebrafish gene promoters

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 158-167

  Ju, Bensheng ^a   Xu, Yanfei ^a   He, Jiangyan ^a   Liao, Ji ^a   Yan, Tie ^a   Hew, Choy L ^a,b   Lam, Toong Jin ^a   Gong, Zhiyuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acidic ribosomal phosphoprotein PO; Cytokeratin; EGFP; Muscle creatine kinase; Musclespecific; Skin specific

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CYTOKERATIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SKIN EPITHELIUM; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CREATINE KINASE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOENZYMES; KERATINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032839814     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1999)25:2<158::AID-DVG10>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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