Pantropic retroviral vectors mediate somatic cell transformation and expression of foreign genes in dipteran insects

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-222

  Jordan, T V ^a,g   Shike, H ^b   Boulo, V ^c   Cedeno, V ^d   Fang, Q ^b   Davis, B S ^e   Jacobs Lorena, M ^f   Higgs, S ^e   Fryxell, K J ^a,g   Burns, J C ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL   (Ecuador)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^f CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes; Anopheles; Drosophila; Insect transformation; Mosquitoes; Retroviral vectors

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; RETROVIRAL VECTOR; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT;

ARTHROPODA; DIPTERA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MURINAE; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 0032145768     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.1998.00063.x     Document Type: Article

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