Generation of albino Xenopus tropicalis using zinc-finger nucleases

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 777-784

  Nakajima, Keisuke ^a   Nakajima, Taeko ^a   Takase, Minoru ^a   Yaoita, Yoshio ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Albino frog; Targeted gene knockout; Tyrosinase; Xenopus tropicalis; Zinc finger nuclease

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBRYO; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOMICS; HETEROZYGOTE; KNOCKOUT GENE; MELANOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TADPOLE; VERTEBRATE; VITILIGO; XENOPUS TROPICALIS; ZYGOTE;

ALBINISM; ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MICROINJECTIONS; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; OVUM; VITILIGO; XENOPUS; ZINC FINGERS;

ANURA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 84870748269     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dgd.12006     Document Type: Article

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