A powerful method combining homologous recombination and site-specific recombination for targeted mutagenesis in Drosophila

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 37, 2008, Pages 13999-14004

  Gao, Guanjun ^a   McMahon, Conor ^a,b   Chen, Jie ^a   Rong, Yikang S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene targeting; Position effect; Rare cutting endonuclease; Single strand annealing; Site specific integration

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; INTEGRASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MUTAGENESIS; NBS GENE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE SPECIFIC INTEGRASE MEDIATED REPEATED TARGETING;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 52949093522     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805843105     Document Type: Article

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