The Big Blue® transgenic mouse mutation detection assay: The mutation pattern of sectored mutant plaques

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 425, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-54

  Hill, Kathleen A ^a   Nishino, Hiroshi ^b   Buettner, Victoria L ^a   Halangoda, Asanga ^a   Li, Wenyan ^a   Sommer, Steve S ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Sectored plaque; Spontaneous mutation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LACTOSE OPERON; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION;

EID: 0033033585     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(98)00248-6     Document Type: Article

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