Design of RNAi reagents for invertebrate model organisms and human disease vectors

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 942, Issue , 2013, Pages 315-346

  Horn, Thomas ^a   Boutros, Michael ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Anopheles; Double stranded RNA; Drosophila; High throughput Screening; Invertebrates; RNAi

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; REAGENT; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; INVERTEBRATE MODEL; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84934439131     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-119-6_17     Document Type: Article

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