The development of Xenopus tropicalis transgenic lines and their use in studying lens developmental timing in living embryos

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1789-1797

  Offield, Martin F ^a   Hirsch, Nicolas ^a   Grainger, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystallin; Differentiation; Lens; Timing; Transgenesis; Xenopus tropicalis

Indexed keywords

GAMMA CRYSTALLIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; LENS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CRYSTALLINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSGENES; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 0034080731     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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