Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice
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Blog Post
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Aug. 6, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
... for the production of offspring that have a combination of the mutations engineered into each of their...journey towards producing mice with your desired combination of mutations. Assuming your parental mice were...crosses. In Part 1, we explained how genetic recombination in mice expressing both Cre and LoxP occurs.... Part 1 of this series). In any case, Cre is a dominant phenotype, while you’ll want the floxed gene to... to be homozygous in order for Cre-mediated recombination to affect every copy of your target gene in ... you see in your experiment are a result of recombination at the floxed site, your control should be littermates...29768166.
Zickler, Denise, and Nancy Kleckner. "Recombination, pairing, and synapsis of homologs during meiosis...