Genomics and Genome Engineering in Xenopus

Xenopus Development

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 383-402

  Vouillot, Léna ^a   Thélie, Aurore ^a   Scalvenzi, Thibault ^a   Pollet, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

Author keywords

CRISPR; Functional genomics; Genome; Genomics; TALEN; Transcriptome; Transgenesis; Transposon; Xenopus; ZFN

Indexed keywords

GENES;

CRISPR; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; TALEN; TRANSCRIPTOMES; TRANSGENESIS; TRANSPOSON; XENOPUS; ZFN;

GENOME;

EID: 84926615317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118492833.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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