A low-cost apparatus for transforming Drosophila and detecting green fluorescent protein (GFP) genetic markers

We describe the transformation of white mutant Drosophila simulans with a piggyBac transposon vector and a green fluorescent marker (GFP) and show how to construct inexpensive micro-manipulation and epifluorescence equipment for use in transposon-mediated germ-line transformation. Although the numbe...

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Main Authors: Maríndia Deprá, Lenira Maria Nunes Sepel, Élgion Lucio da Silva Loreto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2004-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572004000100012