Super-sized deletions: Improved transposon excision screens using a mus309 mutant background

Fly

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-140

  Witsell, Alice ^a   Kane, Daniel P ^a   McVey, Mitch ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloom syndrome; Double strand break repair; Helicase; Minos element; P element; Transposons

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952717268     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.4.2.10918     Document Type: Article

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