Bypass of lethality with mosaic mice generated by Cre-loxP-mediated recombination

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1307-1316

  Betz, Ulrich A K ^a   Voßhenrich, Christian A J ^a   Rajewsky, Klaus ^a   Müller, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030267396     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)70717-3     Document Type: Article

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