An Efficient Laboratory Protocol for the Sequencing of Large Numbers of lacl Mutants Recovered from Big Blue® Transgenic Animals

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 393-396

  Erfle, Heather L ^a   Walsh, David F ^a   Holcroft, James ^a   Hague, Naheed ^a   De Boer, Johan G ^a   Glickman, Barry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA sequencing; Large scale; Mutagenesis; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LACI PROTEIN, BACTERIA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0030329503     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2280(1996)28:4<393::aid-em13>3.0.co;2-a     Document Type: Article

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