Automated screening for mutants affecting dopaminergic-neuron specification in C. elegans.
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SUBMITTER: Doitsidou M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2693092 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct
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Automated screening for mutants affecting dopaminergic-neuron specification in C. elegans.
Doitsidou Maria M Flames Nuria N Lee Albert C AC Boyanov Alexander A Hobert Oliver O
Nature methods 20080831 10
We describe an automated method to isolate mutant Caenorhabditis elegans that do not appropriately execute cellular differentiation programs. We used a fluorescence-activated sorting mechanism implemented in the COPAS Biosort machine to isolate mutants with subtle alterations in the cellular specificity of GFP expression. This methodology is considerably more efficient than comparable manual screens and enabled us to isolate mutants in which dopamine neurons do not differentiate appropriately. ...[more]
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