Searching the unknown with gene trapping

Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1-11

  Hole, Nicholas ^a   Lako, Majlinda ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

development; developmental biology; embryonal stem cell; ES cell; expression marker; gene knockouts; genomics; lacZ; mutation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012543064     PISSN: 14623994     EISSN: 14623994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1462399400001824     Document Type: Article

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