The art and design of genetic screens: Mouse

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 557-567

  Kile, Benjamin T ^a   Hilton, Douglas J ^a  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TESTING REFINEMENT; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; MUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO; NEMATODA;

EID: 21344450123     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1636     Document Type: Review

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