Targeted Gene Expression Using the GAL4/UAS System in the Silkworm Bombyx mori

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1329-1340

  Imamura, Morikazu ^a,c   Nakai, Junichi ^b,d   Inoue, Satoshi ^a,e   Quan, Guo Xing ^a,f   Kanda, Toshio ^a   Tamura, Toshiki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; GAL4 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INSECT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILKWORM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; UPSTREAM ACTIVATING SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0347622766     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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