Efficient and Rapid C. elegans Transgenesis by Bombardment and Hygromycin B Selection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Radman, Inja ^a   Greiss, Sebastian ^a   Chin, Jason W ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYGROMYCIN B;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC STRAIN; HYGR GENE; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; NEMATODE ISOLATION; NEMATODE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HYGROMYCIN B; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84885091266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076019     Document Type: Article

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