Dual promoter expression system with insulator ensures a stringent tissue-specific regulation of two reporter genes in the transgenic fish

Transgenic Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 435-444

  Shimizu, Atsushi ^a   Shimizu, Nobuyoshi ^b,c  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGAHAMA INSTITUTE OF BIO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

I Sce I; Insulator; Medaka; Muscle specific promoter; Transgenic fish

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; ORYZIAS; ORYZIINAE; PISCES;

EID: 84874800844     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-012-9653-8     Document Type: Article

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