morpholino antisense oligonucleotide
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morpholino antisense oligonucleotide
a nonionic DNA analogue with an altered backbone that is resistant to nucleases. Such nucleotides can base pair with mRNA and can block gene expression and produce phenotypic effects in early development when injected into zebrafish, sea urchin, or Xenopus embryos.
| morpholine, morphogenesis, morphogen | |
| morphology, mortalin, mosaic |
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