Transposon-mediated Chromosomal Integration of Transgenes in the Parasitic Nematode Strongyloides ratti and Establishment of Stable Transgenic Lines

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Shao, Hongguang ^a   Li, Xinshe ^a   Nolan, Thomas J ^a   Massey, Holman C ^a   Pearce, Edward J ^b   Lok, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TRANSPOSASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRONGYLOIDES RATTI; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENETIC VECTORS; GERBILLINAE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; STRONGYLOIDES RATTI; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

NEMATODA; RATTUS; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDES RATTI;

EID: 84866166522     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002871     Document Type: Article

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