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. 2004 Apr;5(3):225–229. doi: 10.1002/cfg.392

Shotgun Cloning of Transposon Insertions in the Genome of Caenorhabditis elegans

Alexander M van der Linden 1, Ronald H A Plasterk 1,✉
PMCID: PMC2447444  PMID: 18629154

Abstract

We present a strategy to identify and map large numbers of transposon insertions in the genome of Caenorhabditis elegans. Our approach makes use of the mutator strain mut-7, which has germline-transposition activity of the Tc1/mariner family of transposons, a display protocol to detect new transposon insertions, and the availability of the genomic sequence of C. elegans. From a pilot insertional mutagenesis screen, we have obtained 351 new Tc1 transposons inserted in or near 219 predicted C. elegans genes. The strategy presented provides an approach to isolate insertions of natural transposable elements in many C. elegans genes and to create a large-scale collection of C. elegans mutants.

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