Drosophila under the lens: Imaging from chromosomes to whole embryos

Chromosome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 451-464

  Fritsch, Cornelia ^a   Ploeger, Ginette ^a,b   Arndt Jovin, Donna J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chromosome; Drosophila; Fluorescence microscopy; FRAP; GFP; Imaginal disc; In situ hybridization; lacO arrays

Indexed keywords

CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCUS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING;

EID: 33745713129     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-006-1068-z     Document Type: Review

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