Germ-line chimera produced by blastoderm transplantation in zebrafish

Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi (Japanese Edition)

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Nagai, Terumi ^a,c   Otani, Satoshi ^a   Saito, Taiju ^a   Maegawa, Shingo ^b,d   Inoue, Kunio ^b,e   Arai, Katsutoshi ^a   Yamaha, Etsuro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 17144424992     PISSN: 00215392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/suisan.71.1     Document Type: Article

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