Heritable and inducible gene knockdown in C. elegans using Wormgate and the ORFeome

Gene

Volumn 359, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 26-34

  Johnson, Nicholas M ^a,b   Behm, Carolyn A ^a   Trowell, Stephen C ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gateway; Hairpin; HpRNAi; unc 119

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PROTEOME; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 25144496080     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.05.034     Document Type: Article

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