A high-throughput method for quantifying gene expression data from early Drosophila embryos

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 215, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 374-381

  Janssens, Hilde ^a   Kosman, Dave ^b   Vanario Alonso, Carlos E ^a,c   Jaeger, Johannes ^a   Samsonova, Maria ^d   Reinitz, John ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Drosophila blastoderm; Image segmentation; Insect segmentation; Mathematical morphology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLASTODERM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD20; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HEMOGLOBINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INSECT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA;

EID: 22844442948     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-005-0484-y     Document Type: Article

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