Sequencing mRNA from Cryo-Sliced Drosophila Embryos to Determine Genome-Wide Spatial Patterns of Gene Expression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Combs, Peter A ^a   Eisen, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; DISSECTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RELIABILITY; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84881505548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071820     Document Type: Article

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