Building a zoo of mice for genetic analyses: A comprehensive protocol for the rapid generation of BAC transgenic mice

Genesis

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 264-280

  Johansson, Torbjörn ^a,b   Broll, Ilja ^a,b   Frenz, Theresa ^c   Hemmers, Saskia ^d   Becher, Burkhard ^e   Zeilhofer, Hanns Ulrich ^a,b   Buch, Thorsten ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacterial artificial chromosome; Channelrhodopsin; Cre; CreERT2; EGFP; ET recombination; Keywords transgenic mouse; LacZ; Recombineering; TdTomato

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CRE RECOMBINASE; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; ION CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 77950795886     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.206l2     Document Type: Article

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