Expressing exogenous genes in newts by transgenesis

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 600-608

  Casco Robles, Martin Miguel ^a   Yamada, Shouta ^a   Miura, Tomoya ^a   Nakamura, Kenta ^b   Haynes, Tracy ^c   Maki, Nobuyasu ^b   Del Rio Tsonis, Katia ^c   Tsonis, Panagiotis A ^b   Chiba, Chikafumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL REGENERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMICAL REACTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CYNOPS PYRRHOGASTER; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NEWT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; TRANSGENICS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MALE; SALAMANDRIDAE;

ANIMALIA; CYNOPS PYRRHOGASTER; SALAMANDRIDAE;

EID: 79955545605     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.334     Document Type: Article

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