Stable germline transformation of the malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6789, 2000, Pages 959-962

  Catteruccia, Flaminia ^a   Nolan, Tony ^a   Loukeris, Thanasis G ^b   Blass, Claudia ^b   Savakis, Charalambos ^c   Kafatos, Fotis C ^b   Crisanti, Andrea ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c Research Center of Crete   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GERM LINE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALARIA; MALE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC VECTORS; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSPOSASES;

ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034702297     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016096     Document Type: Article

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