The art and design of genetic screens: Zebrafish

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 956-966

  Patton, Elizabeth E ^a   Zon, Leonard I ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOME; HAPLOIDY; HOMOZYGOTE; REVIEW; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMAL; GENOME; HAPLOIDY; HOMOZYGOTE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0035657098     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35103567     Document Type: Review

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