Specific Knockouts in C.elegans

[William R. Morgan]

smh1008 at cus.cam.ac.uk (David S. Huen) writes:

>Is it possible to produce mutants in C.elegans in which a specific gene is
>>knocked out? 

Yes, see Zwaal et al. (1993)  Target-selected gene inactivation in C.
elegans by using a frozen transposon insertion mutant bank.  Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. USA 90: 7431-7435.

Bill Morgan

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