Transposons as tools for enhancer trap screens in vertebrates

DNA transposons are efficient tools in transgenesis and have therefore become popular in the analysis of the regulatory genome in vertebrates via enhancer trap screens. Here, I discuss recent progress in this field of research, with a focus on the application of one of these transposons, namely the medaka fish derived Tol2, to enhancer trapping in zebrafish, and how this approach compares with others that have a similar objective.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Genome Biology

• Publication date

  2007-10-31

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/gb-2007-8-s1-s8PMID 18047700PMCID 2106835
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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