A new strategy for efficient in vivo screening of mutagenized Drosophila embryos

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-108

  Vef, Olaf ^a   Cleppien, Diana ^a   Löffler, Thomas ^a   Altenhein, Benjamin ^a   Technau, Gerhard M ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Gal4 UAS system; Gal80 balancer chromosomes; GFP; Mutagenesis screen

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN GAL80; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENES, INSECT; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 32044470458     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-005-0036-5     Document Type: Article

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