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From: wmorgan@ACS.WOOSTER.EDU (William R. Morgan)
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Subject: Re: Specific Knockouts in C.elegans
Date: 15 Jul 1994 05:38:06 -0700
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smh1008@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

William R. Morgan
The College of Wooster
Department of Biology
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