Supporting conditional mouse mutagenesis with a comprehensive cre characterization resource

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Heffner, Caleb S ^a   Herbert Pratt, C ^a   Babiuk, Randal P ^a   Sharma, Yashoda ^b   Rockwood, Stephen F ^a   Donahue, Leah R ^a   Eppig, Janan T ^a   Murray, Stephen A ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; PIPELINE; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, REPORTER; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84870776192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2186     Document Type: Article

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