A novel null allele of mouse DSCAM survives to adulthood on an inbred C3H background with reduced phenotypic variability

Genesis

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 578-584

  Fuerst, Peter G ^a,b   Harris, Belinda S ^a   Johnson, Kenneth R ^a   Burgess, Robert W ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Arborization; Development; Down syndrome; Lamination; Mosaic

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DSCAM ALLELE; EXON; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETICS; MALE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SURVIVAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; EXONS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HOMOZYGOTE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NEURITES; PHENOTYPE; RETINA;

MUS;

EID: 79251520329     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20662     Document Type: Article

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