Transposon-mediated BAC transgenesis in zebrafish

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1998-2021

  Suster, Maximiliano L ^a,b   Abe, Gembu ^a   Schouw, Anders ^b   Kawakami, Koichi ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; GALACTOKINASE; GENOMIC DNA; KANAMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA; NAKED DNA; PLASMID DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CLONE; CODON; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCUS; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPORTER GENE; TOL2 TRANSPOSON; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSPOSON; ZEBRA FISH; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; ZEBRAFISH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DANIO RERIO; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORYZIINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84861721597     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.416     Document Type: Article

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