The DNA transposon Minos as a tool for transgenesis and functional genomic analysis in vertebrates and invertebrates

Genome Biology

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Pavlopoulos, Anastasios ^a,b   Oehler, Stefan ^a   Kapetanaki, Maria G ^a,c   Savakis, Charalambos ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENOMICS; INVERTEBRATES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 38449108032     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-s1-s2     Document Type: Review

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