Expression of a wool intermediate filament keratin transgene in sheep fibre alters structure

Transgenic Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 273-287

  Bawden, C S ^a   Powell, B C ^a   Walker, S K ^b   Rogers, G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cortical specific expression; Keratin gene regulation; Sheep transgenesis; Wool; Wool keratin type II IF

Indexed keywords

FIBER; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; KERATIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SHEEP; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WOOL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KERATINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOOL;

EID: 0032124756     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008830314386     Document Type: Article

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