Regulation, necessity, and the misinterpretation of knockouts

BioEssays

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 826-830

  Davies, Jamie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Cybernetics; Developmental biology; Developmental genetic; Genetics; Immunology; Intepretation; Interpretation; Knockout; Logic; Necessity; Physiology; Regulation; Regulator; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE EPSILON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; WT1 PROTEIN;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIESEL ENGINE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PUBLICATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 70349952434     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900044     Document Type: Article

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