Spontaneous mutants recovered from liver and germ cell tissue of low copy number lacI transgenic rats

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 352, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 73-78

  De Boer, J G ^a   Erfle, H ^a   Holcroft, J ^a   Walsh, D ^a   Dycaico, M ^b   Provost, S ^b   Short, J ^c   Glickman, B W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Stratagene   (United States)

^c Recombinant BioCatalysis Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Blue mouse; Mutation; Transgenic animal

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GERM CELL; LACTOSE OPERON; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHUTTLE VECTOR; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0029953623     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(95)00254-5     Document Type: Article

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