Red fluorescent Xenopus laevis: A new tool for grafting analysis

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Waldner, Christoph ^a   Roose, Magdalena ^a   Ryffel, Gerhart U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTEMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; LARVA; LIMB REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TADPOLE; TAIL; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; FLUORESCENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REGENERATION;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; FLUORESCENCE; GENES, PLANT; REGENERATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 67650470584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-9-37     Document Type: Article

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