Melanoma loss-of-function mutants in Xiphophorus caused by Xmrk-oncogene deletion and gene disruption by a transposable element

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1385-1394

  Schartl, Manfred ^a,c   Hornung, Ute ^a   Gutbrod, Heidrun ^a   Volff, Jean Nicolas ^a   Wittbrodt, Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE LOSS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MELANOMA; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; TELEOST; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALIA; POECILIIDAE; TELEOSTEI; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERII;

EID: 0032710999     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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