Incomplete cre-mediated excision leads to phenotypic differences between Stra8-iCre; Mov10l1lox/lox and Stra8-iCre; Mov10l1lox/Δ mice

Genesis

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 481-490

  Bao, Jianqiang ^a   Ma, Hsiu Yen ^b   Schuster, Andrew ^a   Lin, Yung Ming ^b   Yan, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conditional gene knockout; Cre; Germ line; Loxp; Mosaicism; Phenotype; PiRNA; Testis

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; PROTEIN; STRA8 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CELL LINEAGE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; LETTER; LOXP SITE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPERMATOCYTE;

CONDITIONAL GENE KNOCKOUT; CRE; GERM LINE; LOXP; MOSAICISM; PHENOTYPE; PIRNA; TESTIS;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GERM CELLS; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOSAICISM; PHENOTYPE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TRANSGENES;

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EID: 84880698327     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22389     Document Type: Letter

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