Next-Generation Site-Directed Transgenesis in the Malaria Vector Mosquito Anopheles gambiae: Self-Docking Strains Expressing Germline-Specific phiC31 Integrase

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Meredith, Janet M ^a   Underhill, Ann ^a   McArthur, Clare C ^a   Eggleston, Paul ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GERM LINE; IMAGO; INSECT GENETICS; LARVAL STAGE; MALE; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NANOS GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PHIC31 INTEGRASE GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; INSECT VECTORS; INTEGRASES; MALARIA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED;

EID: 84874871326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059264     Document Type: Article

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