Transposon mediated transgenesis in a marine invertebrate chordate: Ciona intestinalis

Genome Biology

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Sasakura, Yasunori ^a   Oogai, Yuichi ^b   Matsuoka, Terumi ^b   Satoh, Nori ^b,c   Awazu, Satoko ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORDATA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GERM LINE; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; GENOME;

CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENOME; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL;

EID: 38149073434     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-s1-s3     Document Type: Review

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