Engineering a mouse balancer chromosome

Nature Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 375-378

  Zheng, Binhai ^a   Sage, Marijke ^a   Cai, Wei Wen ^a   Thompson, Debrah M ^a   Tavsanli, Beril C ^a   Cheah, Yin Chai ^a   Bradley, Allan ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53; REAGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 11; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LETHAL GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032813539     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/11949     Document Type: Article

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