Engineered telomeres in transgenic Xenopus laevis

Transgenic Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 377-384

  Wuebbles, Ryan ^a   Jones, Peter L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Telomere; Transgenic; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; TELOMERE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DNA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, ANIMAL; TELOMERE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; CACOSTERNUM; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 34247543019     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-007-9076-0     Document Type: Article

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