Back to BAC: The use of infectious clone technologies for viral mutagenesis

Viruses

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 211-235

  Hall, Robyn N ^a   Meers, Joanne ^a   Fowler, Elizabeth ^b   Mahony, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Ritchie Laboratories   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial; Bacterial; Chromosomes; Cloning; DNA viruses; Genetic; Infectious clone; Molecular methods; Mutagenesis; Recombination; Transposition

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS MUTATION;

CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HERPESVIRIDAE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DNA VIRUSES; HERPESVIRIDAE;

EID: 84857682336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v4020211     Document Type: Review

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