Medaka - A model organism from the Far East

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-64

  Wittbrodt, Joachim ^a   Shima, Akihiro ^b   Schartl, Manfred ^c  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; ORYZIAS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036245348     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg704     Document Type: Review

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