Injection-mediated transposon transgenesis in xenopus tropicalis and the identification of integration sites by modified extension primer tag selection (Epts) linker-mediated pcr

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2975-2986

  Yergeau, Donald A ^a   Kuliyev, Emin ^a   Mead, Paul E ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROINJECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSPOSON; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROINJECTIONS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSGENES; TRANSPOSASES; XENOPUS;

EID: 39149093420     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.428     Document Type: Article

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