Reverse genetics in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae: Targeted disruption of the Defensin gene

EMBO Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 852-856

  Blandin, Stéphanie ^a   Moita, Luis F ^a   Köcher, Thomas ^a   Wilm, Matthias ^a   Kafatos, Fotis C ^a   Levashina, Elena A ^a  

^a Europ Molec Biology Organisation   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT GENE; MALARIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DEFENSINS; FEMALE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; POSIBACTERIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036747342     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvf180     Document Type: Article

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