Predicting the age of mosquitoes using transcriptional profiles

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2796-2806

  Cook, Peter E ^a   Hugo, Leon E ^a,b   Iturbe Ormaetxe, Inaki ^a   Williams, Craig R ^c   Chenoweth, Stephen F ^a   Ritchie, Scott A ^d,e   Ryan, Peter A ^b   Kay, Brian H ^b   Blows, Mark W ^a   O'Neill, Scott L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA;

AEDES; AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AEDES; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 39149135879     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.396     Document Type: Article

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