Large-scale insertional mutagenesis of a coleopteran stored grain pest, the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, identifies embryonic lethal mutations and enhancer traps

BMC Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Trauner, Jochen ^a   Schinko, Johannes ^b   Lorenzen, Marcé D ^c   Shippy, Teresa D ^d   Wimmer, Ernst A ^b   Beeman, Richard W ^c   Klingler, Martin ^a   Bucher, Gregor ^b   Brown, Susan J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; COLEOPTERA; DONOR SITE; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PEST INSECT; PHENOTYPE; TRANSPOSON; TRIBOLIUM; TRIBOLIUM CASTENEUM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CHROMOSOME MAP; CROSS BREEDING; EMBRYO DEATH; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; LETHAL GENE; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EMBRYO LOSS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENES, LETHAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GERM-LINE MUTATION; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; TRANSPOSASES; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 71049187301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-73     Document Type: Article

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