Targeted Mutagenesis of Duplicated Genes in Caenorhabditis elegans Using CRISPR-Cas9

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 103-106

  Xu, Suhong ^a,d   Wang, Zhiping ^b,d   Kim, Kyung Won ^b   Jin, Yishi ^b,c   Chisholm, Andrew D ^a,b  

^a SECTION OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEUROBIOLOGY SECTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DELETION MUTANT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; GERMLINE MUTATION; LETTER; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; RNA INTERFERENCE; ANIMAL; DUPLICATE GENE; GENE EDITING; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENE EDITING; GENES, DUPLICATE; MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 84959118749     PISSN: 16738527     EISSN: 18735533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2015.11.004     Document Type: Letter

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