Construction and evaluation of a transgenic hsp16-GFP-lacZ Caenorhabditis elegans strain for environmental monitoring

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 111-118

  David, Helen E ^a   Dawe, Adam S ^b   De Pomerai, David I ^b   Jones, Don ^c   Candido, E Peter M ^c   Daniells, Clare ^b  

^a UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Caenorhabditis elegans; Green fluorescent protein; Heat shock response; Stress inducible

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; GENES; MICROWAVES; MONITORING; PROTEINS; TISSUE;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN (GFP);

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CADMIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAVY METAL; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEAT SHOCK; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS; TRANSGENE; WORM;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 0037215166     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620220114     Document Type: Article

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