Insulated piggyBac vectors for insect transgenesis

BMC Biotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sarkar, Abhimanyu ^a   Atapattu, Asela ^a   Belikoff, Esther J ^a   Heinrich, Jörg C ^a   Li, Xuelei ^a   Horn, Carsten ^b   Wimmer, Ernst A ^b   Scott, Maxwell J ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GERM-LINE TRANSFORMATION; INSECT; PIGGYBAC; TRANSGENESIS;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; GENES; PROTEINS;

INSECT CONTROL;

BETA GLOBIN; CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; EYE COLOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GERM LINE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSECT GENETICS; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MAMMAL CELL; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; LEPIDOPTERA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ANTHOZOA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33746616123     PISSN: 14726750     EISSN: 14726750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6750-6-27     Document Type: Article

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