Optimized axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) husbandry, breeding, metamorphosis, transgenesis and tamoxifen-mediated recombination

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 529-540

  Khattak, Shahryar ^a,b   Murawala, Prayag ^b   Andreas, Heino ^a   Kappert, Verena ^a   Schuez, Maritta ^a,b   Sandoval Guzmán, Tatiana ^a,b   Crawford, Karen ^b,c   Tanaka, Elly M ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE THERAPIES DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; DNA; RNA; TAMOXIFEN; TRANSPOSASE;

AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMBRYO; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERM LINE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MATING; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSON;

AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BREEDING; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TAMOXIFEN; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 84895505385     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.040     Document Type: Article

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