Splice-activated UAS hairpin vector gives complete RNAi knockout of single or double target transcripts in Drosophila melanogaster

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 160-164

  Reichhart, Jean Marc ^a   Ligoxygakis, Petros ^a   Naitza, Silvia ^a   Woerfel, Gertrud ^b   Imler, Jean Luc ^a   Gubb, David ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN NEC; PROTEIN UAS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DNA VECTOR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRAIN; INTRON; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PUPATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; SILENCER GENE; THORAX;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036741799     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.10122     Document Type: Article

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