A P-element insertion screen identified mutations in 455 novel essential genes in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 195-201

  Oh, Su Wan ^a   Kingsley, Tracy ^a   Shin, Hyun hee ^a   Zheng, Zhiyu ^a   Chen, Hua Wei ^a   Chen, Xiu ^a   Wang, Hong ^a   Ruan, Peizheng ^a   Moody, Michelle ^a   Hou, Steven X ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA; ESSENTIAL GENE; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; GERM LINE; INSECT GENETICS; LETHAL MUTANT; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; GENES, LETHAL; MUTATION;

ARACHNIDA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0037274701     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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