siRNA-mediated gene targeting in Aedes aegypti embryos reveals that frazzled regulates vector mosquito CNS development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Clemons, Anthony ^a,b   Haugen, Morgan ^b   Le, Christy ^a   Mori, Akio ^a   Tomchaney, Michael ^a   Severson, David W ^a,b   Duman Scheel, Molly ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAZZLED; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; NETRIN RECEPTORS; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA COMMISSURELESS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; VENTRAL ROOT; AEDES; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE TARGETING; INSECT VECTORS; NEUROGENESIS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 79551638610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016730     Document Type: Article

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