Transgenes as screening tools to probe and manipulate the zebrafish genome

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 255-268

  Amsterdam, Adam ^a   Becker, Thomas S ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Enhancer; Functional genomics; Gene trap; Insertional mutagenesis; Retrovirus; Transposon

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; ENHANCER DETECTION METHOD; GENE PROBE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRAPPING METHOD; GENETIC MODEL; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INSERTIONAL MUTAGENESIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RETROVIRIDAE; TRANSGENES; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 25444434840     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20541     Document Type: Review

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