Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on August 30, 2008.

Genetics, Vol. 180, 703-707, September 2008, Copyright © 2008
doi:10.1534/genetics.108.090563

Efficient Ends-Out Gene Targeting In Drosophila

* Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania 15261 and {dagger} Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143

2 Corresponding author: Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, S325 BST, 3500 Terrace St., Pittsburgh, PA 15261.
E-mail: yhong{at}pitt.edu

In this report, we describe several approaches to improve the scalability and throughput of major genetic crosses in ends-out gene targeting. We generated new sets of targeting vectors and fly stocks and introduced a novel negative selection marker that drastically reduced the frequency of false-positive targeting candidates.


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