Site-specific cassette exchange systems in the aedes aegypti mosquito and the plutella xylostella moth

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Haghighat Khah, Roya Elaine ^c   Scaife, Sarah ^b   Martins, Sara ^c   St John, Oliver ^a,b   Matzen, Kelly Jean ^b   Morrison, Neil ^b   Alphey, Luke ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OXITEC LIMITED   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINASE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; EMBRYO; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INSECT GENOME; INTEGRASE RECOMBINASE MEDIATED CASSETTE EXCHANGE; LOXP SITE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; AEDES; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOTH; OVUM; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

AEDES AEGYPTI; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; PLUTELLIDAE;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENOME, INSECT; MOTHS; OVUM; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84927558485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121097     Document Type: Article

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