Site-specific genetic engineering of the Anopheles gambiae y chromosome

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 7600-7605

  Bernardini, Federica ^a   Galizi, Roberto ^a   Menichelli, Miriam ^a   Papathanos, Philippos Aris ^b   Dritsou, Vicky ^b   Marois, Eric ^c   Crisanti, Andrea ^a,b   Windbichler, Nikolai ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; SIT

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; NUCLEASE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INSECT GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECOMBINATION REPAIR; SEX DETERMINATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; TRANSPOSON; Y CHROMOSOME;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; SIT;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CHROMOSOMES, INSECT; DNA PRIMERS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENES; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84901660045     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404996111     Document Type: Article

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