A scalable pipeline for highly effective genetic modification of a malaria parasite

Nature Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1078-1084

  Pfander, Claudia ^a   Anar, Burcu ^a   Schwach, Frank ^a   Otto, Thomas D ^a   Brochet, Mathieu ^a   Volkmann, Katrin ^a   Quail, Michael A ^a   Pain, Arnab ^a,b   Rosen, Barry ^a   Skarnes, William ^a   Rayner, Julian C ^a   Billker, Oliver ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE N15; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 82355175184     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1742     Document Type: Article

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