Using FlyAtlas to identify better Drosophila melanogaster models of human disease

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 715-720

  Chintapalli, Venkateswara R ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Dow, Julian A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DISEASE MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FILTER; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOME; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; HUMANS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 34249804498     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng2049     Document Type: Review

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