Power tools for gene expression and clonal analysis in Drosophila

Nature Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-55

  Del Valle Rodríguez, Alberto ^a   Didiano, Dominic ^a   Desplan, Claude ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEXA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL80; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMOSOME; CLONE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; CLONAL EVOLUTION; CLONE CELLS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84856422956     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1800     Document Type: Review

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