Silencing of Toll pathway components by direct injection of double-stranded RNA into Drosophila adult flies

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 6619-6623

  Goto, Akira ^a   Blandin, Stéphanie ^b   Royet, Julien ^a   Reichhart, Jean Marc ^a   Levashina, Elena A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPISTASIS; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; KNOCKOUT GENE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SERPINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0345099608     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg852     Document Type: Article

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