Cre-mediated site-specific recombination in zebrafish embryos

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 233, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1366-1377

  Thummel, Ryan ^a,b   Burket, Christopher T ^b   Brewer, Jeffrey L ^a   Sarras Jr , Michael P ^a,e   Li, Li ^a   Perry, Martin ^a   McDermott, Jeffrey P ^a   Sauer, Brian ^c,d   Hyde, David R ^a   Godwin, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional; Cre recombinase; hcRFP; Heat shock; Inducible; lacZ; Transgenic; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENES, REPORTER; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; INTEGRASES; MOSAICISM; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; MURINAE;

EID: 22244455030     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20475     Document Type: Article

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