Genetic and genomic toolbox of the Chordate Ciona intestinalis

Genetics

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-66

  Stolfi, Alberto ^a   Christiaen, Lionel ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLINO OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PLASMID DNA;

CIONA INTESTINALIS; ELECTROPORATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; MICROINJECTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE GENETICS; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

CHORDATA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866102966     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.140590     Document Type: Review

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