Engineering the mouse genome by site-specific recombination

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 470-476

  Metzger, Daniel ^a   Feil, Robert ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINASE; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0032836614     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(99)00012-9     Document Type: Review

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