Emerging technologies for gene manipulation in Drosophila melanogaster

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 167-178

  Venken, Koen J T ^a   Bellen, Hugo J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE PHI C31; BIOLOGY; DNA MODIFICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDS OUT REPLACEMENT GENE TARGETING; EUKARYOTE; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; REVERSE GENETICS; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TARGETING INDUCED LOCAL LESIONS IN GENOME METHOD; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSON;

NASA DISCIPLINE DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE TARGETING; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIOPHAGE PHI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 14344263852     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1553     Document Type: Review

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