Single cell quantification of reporter gene expression in live adult Caenorhabditis elegans reveals reproducible cell-specific expression patterns and underlying biological variation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Mendenhall, Alexander R ^a   Tedesco, Patricia M ^b   Sands, Bryan ^a   Johnson, Thomas E ^b   Brent, Roger ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REPORTER GENE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84929105134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124289     Document Type: Article

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