Efficient genome engineering approaches for the short-lived African turquoise killifish

Nature Protocols

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2010-2028

  Harel, Itamar ^a   Valenzano, Dario Riccardo ^b,c   Brunet, Anne ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF AGEING   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

AGING; AGRICULTURE; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ENGINEERING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GERMLINE TRANSMISSION; HATCHING; HOMOLOGY DIRECTED REPAIR; KILLIFISH; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOTHOBRANCHIUS FURZERI; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RNA EDITING; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSGENICS;

EID: 84988660008     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2016.103     Document Type: Article

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