Zebrafish genetics: harnessing horizontal gene transfer.
The promiscuous spread of Tc1/mariner transposons across species implies that host factors are relatively unimportant for their transposition. Heterologous elements can integrate on expression of the corresponding transposases, an approach that should greatly facilitate genetic analysis in the zebrafish.
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Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. eweinber@sas.upenn.edu
D000818:Animals; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal; D016296:Mutagenesis; D019895:Transposases; D015027:Zebrafish / Q000235:genetics*
D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D019895:Transposases