Genetic engineering using homologous recombination

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2002, Pages 361-388

  Court, Donald L ^a   Sawitzke, James A ^a   Thomason, Lynn C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA replication forks; In vivo cloning; Oligo recombination; Recombineering; Strand annealing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036953835     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.36.061102.093104     Document Type: Review

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