Genetic engineering of the multicellular green alga Volvox: A modified and multiplied bacterial antibiotic resistance gene as a dominant selectable marker

Plant Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-109

  Hallmann, Armin ^a   Rappel, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARYLSULFATASE; BETA TUBULIN; CHIMERIC GENE; DNA FRAGMENT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; INTRON; MUTANT; PLASMID; ZEOCIN;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; VOLVOX; VOLVOX CARTERI;

EID: 0033024780     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00342.x     Document Type: Article

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