Efficient foreign gene expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mediated by an endogenous intron

Plant Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 441-447

  Lumbreras, Victoria ^a   Stevens, David R ^a   Purton, Saul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC TRANSGENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROLOGOUS GENE; INTRON; NUCLEAR GENOME; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT RESISTANCE; ZEOMYCIN;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

EID: 0031830846     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00145.x     Document Type: Article

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