Transgenic Xenopus laevis for live imaging in cell and developmental biology

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 422-433

  Takagi, Chiyo ^a   Sakamaki, Kazuhiro ^b   Morita, Hitoshi ^a,c   Hara, Yusuke ^a   Suzuki, Makoto ^a   Kinoshita, Noriyuki ^a   Ueno, Naoto ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Early development; Live imaging; Organogenesis; Xenopus laevis; Xenopus tropicalis

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO CELL; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 84877810214     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dgd.12042     Document Type: Review

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