Construction of pFRT, a convenient Drosophila transformation vector with the functional FRT site

Molekulyarnaya Biologiya

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 820-824

  Gorchakov, A A ^a   Demakov, S A ^a   Shvarts, Yu B ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; RECOMBINASE; DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; IN VIVO CULTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION SITE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETIC VECTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 1542496454     PISSN: 00268984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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