Applications of insect transgenesis

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 225-232

  Wimmer, Ernst A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; INSECT; PEST MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSGENICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALARIA; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENES, INSECT; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTS; MALARIA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037364253     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1021     Document Type: Review

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