Sleeping Beauty and Xenopus: Transposons as genetic tools

Current Genomics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 687-697

  Hamlet, M R Johnson ^a   Mead, Paul E ^a  

^a Department of Pathology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Insertional mutagenesis; Sleeping Beauty; Transgenesis; Transposable element; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMPHIBIA; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE TECHNOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; MAIZE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SALMONID; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; INVERTEBRATA; REPTILIA; SALMONIDAE; TRANSPOSONS; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS TROPICALIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0142216426     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389202033490079     Document Type: Review

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