The iBeetle large-scale RNAi screen reveals gene functions for insect development and physiology

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Schmitt Engel, Christian ^a,b   Schultheis, Dorothea ^b   Schwirz, Jonas ^a   Ströhlein, Nadi ^b   Troelenberg, Nicole ^b   Majumdar, Upalparna ^b   Dao, Van Anh ^c   Grossmann, Daniela ^a   Richter, Tobias ^b   Tech, Maike ^a   Dönitz, Jürgen ^a,d   Gerischer, Lizzy ^e   Theis, Mirko ^f,g   Schild, Inga ^a   Trauner, Jochen ^b   Koniszewski, Nikolaus D B ^a   Küster, Elke ^a   Kittelmann, Sebastian ^a   Hu, Yonggang ^a   Lehmann, Sabrina ^a   Siemanowski, Janna ^a   Ulrich, Julia ^a   Panfilio, Kristen A ^c   Schröder, Reinhard ^h   Morgenstern, Burkhard ^a   Stanke, Mario ^e   Buchhholz, Frank ^f   Frasch, Manfred ^b   Roth, Siegfried ^c   Wimmer, Ernst A ^a   Schoppmeier, Michael ^b   Klingler, Martin ^b   Bucher, Gregor ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^f DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g TU Dresden Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus Medical Systems Biology ^*  (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BEETLE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FLY; PHYSIOLOGY; RESEARCH WORK; RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SCREENING; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; ANIMAL; BEETLE; EMBRYOLOGY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PUPA; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM;

HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; OOGENESIS; PUPA; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 84938124727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8822     Document Type: Article

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