Hermes, a functional non-drosophilid insect gene vector from Musca domestica

Genetics

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 907-914

  O'Brochta, David A ^a   Warren, William D ^a,c   Saville, Kenneth J ^a,d   Atkinson, Peter W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^d ALBION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOUSE FLY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC VECTORS; HOUSEFLIES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0029895562     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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