A toolkit enabling efficient, scalable and reproducible gene tagging in trypanosomatids

Open Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Dean, Samuel ^a   Sunter, Jack ^a   Wheeler, Richard J ^a   Hodkinson, Ian ^b   Gluenz, Eva ^a   Gull, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fusion PCR; Homologous recombination; Molecular tools; Optimization; Tagging; Trypanosomatid

Indexed keywords

LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; LEISHMANIA; PROCEDURES;

GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LEISHMANIA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84923675616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.140197     Document Type: Article

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