New tool for an old problem: Can RNAi efficiently resolve the issue of genetic redundancy?

BioEssays

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-16

  Kan, Lixin ^a   Kessler, John A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX FORMATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 12344260871     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20172     Document Type: Review

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