Production of transgenic Xenopus laevis by restriction enzyme mediated integration and nuclear transplantation

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 42, 2010, Pages

  Amaya, Enrique ^a   Kroll, Kristen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental Biology; Embryo; Issue 42; Nuclear transplantation; Transgenesis; Transgenic; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355142034     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/2010     Document Type: Article

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