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Didier Y R Stainier1, Zacharias Kontarakis1, Andrea Rossi1
1Department of Developmental Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim 61231, Germany.
Developmental Cell
|January 14, 2015
Abstract:
The morpholino anti-sense technology has been used extensively to test gene function. The zebrafish model allows a detailed comparison of knockdown (anti-sense) and knockout (mutation) effects. Recent studies reveal that these two approaches can often lead to surprisingly different phenotypes, thus raising a number of important questions.
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