A pink mouse reports the switch from red to green fluorescence upon Cre-mediated recombination

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hartwich, Heiner ^a   Satheesh, Somisetty V ^a   Nothwang, Hans Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MUS;

CRE RECOMBINASE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; COLOR; COLOR VISION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SKIN; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GENOTYPE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SKIN; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84862225653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-296     Document Type: Article

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