Site-specific recombination for the modification of transgenic strains of the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata

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

Volumn 106, Issue 43, 2009, Pages 18171-18176

  Schetelig, Marc F ^a,b   Scolaric, Francesca ^c   Handler, Alfred M ^b   Kittelmann, Sebastian ^a   Gasperi, Giuliano ^c   Wimmer, Ernst A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Insect pest management; phiC31 integrase; Transgene stability

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE;

ARTICLE; DNA MODIFICATION; DONOR; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOMICS; MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL; PEST ORGANISM; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CERATITIS CAPITATA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

CERATITIS CAPITATA; HEXAPODA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 70849135706     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907264106     Document Type: Article

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