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. 2002 Sep;162(1):521–524. doi: 10.1093/genetics/162.1.521

Identification of 1088 new transposon insertions of Caenorhabditis elegans: a pilot study toward large-scale screens.

Edwige Martin 1, Hélène Laloux 1, Gaëlle Couette 1, Thierry Alvarez 1, Catherine Bessou 1, Oliver Hauser 1, Satis Sookhareea 1, Michel Labouesse 1, Laurent Ségalat 1
PMCID: PMC1462269  PMID: 12242258

Abstract

We explored the feasibility of a strategy based on transposons to generate identified mutants of most Caenorhabditis elegans genes. A total of 1088 random new insertions of C. elegans transposons Tc1, Tc3, and Tc5 were identified by anchored PCR, some of which result in a mutant phenotype.

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