Site-selected mutagenesis of the Drosophila second chromosome via plasmid rescue of lethal P-element insertions

Genome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 972-979

  Guo, Yiquan ^a   Gillan, Ann ^a   Török, Tibor ^b   Kiss, Istvan ^b   Dow, Julian A T ^a   Kaiser, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL MUTANT; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; DROSOPHILA; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029909065     PISSN: 10549803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6.10.972     Document Type: Article

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