Current status of medaka genetics and genomics the Medaka Genome Initiative (MGI)

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 2004, Issue 77, 2004, Pages 173-199

  Schartl, Manfred ^a   Nanda, Indrajit ^a   Kondo, Mariko ^a   Schmid, Michael ^a   Asakawa, Shuichi ^b   Sasaki, Takashi ^b   Shimizu, Nobuyoshi ^b   Henrich, Thorsten ^c   Wittbrodt, Joachim ^c   Furutani Seiki, Makoto ^d   Kondoh, Hisato ^d   Himmelbauer, Heinz ^e   Hong, Yunhan ^f   Koga, Akihiko ^g   Nonaka, Masaru ^h   Mitani, Hiroshi ⁱ   Shima, Akihiro ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^g NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

ⁱ NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; ORYZIAS;

ANIMALS; GENOMICS; ORYZIAS;

EID: 16644364847     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(04)77010-7     Document Type: Review

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