Creating transgenic drosophila by microinjecting the site-specific Φc31 integrase mrna and a transgene-containing donor plasmid

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2325-2331

  Fish, Matthew P ^a   Groth, Amy C ^b   Calos, Michele P ^b   Nusse, Roel ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PLASMID; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSGENE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTEGRASES; PLASMIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSGENES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 38449110315     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.328     Document Type: Article

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