piggyBac-based insertional mutagenesis and enhancer detection as a tool for functional insect genomics

Genetics

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 647-661

  Horn, Carsten ^a   Offen, Nils ^a   Nystedt, Sverker ^b   Häckert, Udo ^b   Wimmer, Ernst A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOMICS; HOMOZYGOSITY; INSECT GENETICS; LETHALITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENES, REPORTER; GENOMICS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION;

ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MELANOGASTER; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037295418     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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