Identification of the Tol2 transposase of the medaka fish Oryzias latipes that catalyzes excision of a nonautonomous Tol2 element in zebrafish Danio rerio

Gene

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 239-244

  Kawakami, Koichi ^a   Shima, Akihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Insertional mutagenesis; Transgenesis; Transposase; Transposon; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; ZEBRA FISH; ZYGOTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, RECOMBINANT; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; ORYZIAS; PLASMIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSPOSASES; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; EUKARYOTA; LATIPES; ORYZIAS LATIPES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032726735     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00444-8     Document Type: Article

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