Recombineering homologous recombination constructs in Drosophila

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 77, 2013, Pages

  Carreira Rosario, Arnaldo ^a   Scoggin, Shane ^a   Shalaby, Nevine A ^a   Williams, Nathan David ^a   Robin Hiesinger, P ^a,b   Buszczak, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Bioengineering; Biomedical engineering; DNA; Drosophila; Drosophila melanogaster; Gene; Gene targeting; Genes; Genetic engineering; Genetics; Genetics (animal and plant); Homologous recombination; Issue 77; Knock out; Molecular biology; PCR; Physiology; Primers; Recombination; Recombineering; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MALE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MALE;

EID: 84880156221     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50346     Document Type: Article

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