Specificity of modified Drosophila mariner transposons in the identification of Leishmania genes

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 109-113

  Augusto, Marlei J ^a   Squina, Fabio M ^a   Marchini, Julio F M ^a   Dias, Fabricio C ^a   Tosi, Luiz R O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gene trapping; H region; In vitro transposition; Leishmania; Mariner transposon

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KANAMYCIN KINASE; LEISHMANIA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION; TRANSPOSASES;

PROTOZOA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 9944258999     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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