The chicken as a model for large-scale analysis of vertebrate gene function

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 87-98

  Brown, William R A ^a   Hubbard, Simon J ^b   Tickle, Cheryll ^c   Wilson, Stuart A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RIBOZYME;

ANIMAL MODEL; CELL LINE; CHICKEN; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOMICS; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOMA; MARKER GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; RNA ISOLATION; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VERTEBRATE; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; MODELS, ANIMAL; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037306116     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg998     Document Type: Review

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