Minos transposon causes germline transgenesis of the ascidian Ciona savignyi

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 249-255

  Matsuoka, Terumi ^a   Awazu, Satoko ^a   Satoh, Nori ^a   Sasakura, Yasunori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ciona savignyi; Germline transgenesis; Transposase; Transposition; Transposon

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; ASSAY; CIONA SAVIGNYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERM LINE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; TECHNIQUE; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GERM-LINE MUTATION; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONA SAVIGNYI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; INVERTEBRATA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 3242658302     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2004.00742.x     Document Type: Article

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