Targeted mutations in myostatin by zinc-finger nucleases result in double-muscled phenotype in Meishan pigs

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Qian, Lili ^a,b   Tang, Maoxue ^a   Yang, Jinzeng ^c   Wang, Qingqing ^a   Cai, Chunbo ^a,b   Jiang, Shengwang ^a   Li, Hegang ^a,d   Jiang, Ke ^d   Gao, Pengfei ^a   Ma, Dezun ^a   Chen, Yaoxing ^b   An, Xiaorong ^b   Li, Kui ^a   Cui, Wentao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d Institute of Animal Sciences ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSTATIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FOOD QUALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HYPERTROPHY; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PIG; PROCEDURES; RED MEAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARDS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENDONUCLEASES; FOOD QUALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; MYOSTATIN; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; RED MEAT; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84942134094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14435     Document Type: Article

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