Transgenic Xenopus laevis embryos can be generated using φC31 integrase

Nature Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 975-979

  Allen, Bryan G ^a   Weeks, Daniel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; GENOMIC DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHI C31 INTEGRASE; PLASMID DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENICS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BACTERIOPHAGES; BETA-GLOBULINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMATIN; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GAMMA-CRYSTALLINS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; OOCYTES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 30944462461     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth814     Document Type: Article

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