Expression of the murine wild-type tyrosinase gene in transgenic rabbits

Transgenic Research

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 405-411

  Aigner, Bernhard ^a,c   Besenfelder, Urban ^a,c   Seregi, Janos ^b   Frenyo, Laszlo V ^b   Sahin Toth, Tibor ^b   Brem, Gottfried ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b University for Veterinary Science   (Hungary)

^c Institute for Agrobiotechnology Tulln   (Austria)

Author keywords

breeding control; colour marker; gene transfer; pigmentation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0030298230     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01980205     Document Type: Article

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