Flybow: Genetic multicolor cell labeling for neural circuit analysis in Drosophila melanogaster

Nature Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 260-266

  Hadjieconomou, Dafni ^a   Rotkopf, Shay ^b,c   Alexandre, Cyrille ^a   Bell, Donald M ^a   Dickson, Barry J ^b   Salecker, Iris ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4;

ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MULTICOLOR CELL LABELING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLIA CELL; IMAGINAL DISC; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE NET; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; STAINING AND LABELING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 79551670077     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1567     Document Type: Article

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