Gal4 Driver Transgenic Zebrafish: Powerful Tools to Study Developmental Biology, Organogenesis, and Neuroscience

Advances in Genetics

Volumn 95, Issue , 2016, Pages 65-87

  Kawakami, K ^a   Asakawa, K ^a   Hibi, M ^b   Itoh, M ^c   Muto, A ^a   Wada, H ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium imaging; Cerebellum; Enhancer trapping; Gal4 UAS; GCaMP; Gene trapping; Lateral line; Motor neuron; Notch signaling; Tetanus neurotoxin; The Tol2 transposable element

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GAL4 PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSPOSON; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NEUROSCIENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSPOSON; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NEUROSCIENCES; ORGANOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84994165707     PISSN: 00652660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.adgen.2016.04.002     Document Type: Article

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