The cII locus in the Muta(TM)Mouse system

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 34, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 201-207

  Swiger, Roy R ^a   Cosentino, Lidia ^a   Shima, Naoko ^a   Bielas, Jason H ^a   Cruz Munoz, William ^a   Heddle, John A ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ENU; Ex vivo; In vivo; Neutral mutation; Sequence

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA; CII PROTEIN, BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; GENE LOCUS; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0032589724     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2280(1999)34:2/3<201::AID-EM20>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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