Genetic manipulation of schistosomes - Progress with integration competent vectors

Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 641-650

  Suttiprapa, Sutas ^a   Rinaldi, Gabriel ^a,b   Brindley, Paul J ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

chromosome integration; genetic manipulation; germ line; murine leukaemia virus; piggyBac; pseudotyped gammaretrovirus; retrovirus; Schistosomes; transgenesis; transposon

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; RETROVIRUS VECTOR;

GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSON; VIRION;

ANIMALS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHISTOSOMA; TRANSGENES;

GAMMARETROVIRUS; MURINAE; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM;

EID: 84859386551     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003118201100134X     Document Type: Review

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