Out with the old, in with the new: Reassessing morpholino knockdowns in light of genome editing technology

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 141, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 3103-3104

  Schulte Merker, Stefan ^a,b   Stainier, Didier Y R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HEART AND LUNG RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME; MORPHOLINOS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84905483274     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.112003     Document Type: Article

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