Through a glass, darkly: Reflections of mutation from lacI transgenic mice

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1359-1367

  Stuart, Gregory R ^a   Glickman, Barry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; CELL DNA; DINUCLEOTIDE;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEAMINATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; AGING; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CPG ISLANDS; CYTOSINE; DEAMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE FREQUENCY; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033924885     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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