Comparative fitness assessment of Anopheles stephensi transgenic lines receptive to site-specific integration

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 263-269

  Amenya, D A ^a   Bonizzoni, M ^a   Isaacs, A T ^b   Jasinskiene, N ^a   Chen, H ^a   Marinotti, O ^a   Yan, G ^a   Jamesti, A A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybridizations in situ; Life table analyses; Site specific recombi nation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANOPHELES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOME, INSECT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INSECT VECTORS; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77952625042     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2009.00986.x     Document Type: Article

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