Mos1-mediated insertional mutagenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1276-1287

  Boulin, Thomas ^a,b   Bessereau, Jean Louis ^a,b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSASES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MAURITIANA;

EID: 34250158063     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.192     Document Type: Article

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