Engineering the caenorhabditis elegans Genome by mos1-induced transgene-instructed gene conversion

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 859, Issue , 2012, Pages 189-201

  Robert, Valérie J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Genome engineering; Knock in allele; Knockout allele; Protein tagging; Tc1 Mariner family

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MARINER TRANSPOSASES; TRANSPOSASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, HELMINTH; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; TRANSGENES; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 84860191137     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-603-6_11     Document Type: Article

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