FACS purification of Drosophila larval neuroblasts for next-generation sequencing

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1088-1099

  Harzer, Heike ^a   Berger, Christian ^a   Conder, Ryan ^a   Schmauss, Gerald ^a   Knoblich, Juergen A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SIZE; CELL SUSPENSION; DISSOCIATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROBLAST; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DROSOPHILA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; LARVA; NEURAL STEM CELLS;

EID: 84879395049     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.062     Document Type: Article

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