Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 3: Genome Engineering in Flies
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Blog Post
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July 28, 2017, 1:30 p.m.
...have to make a transgenic fly in order to study it. The process is fairly straightforward. Basically, you...you need to combine multiple transgenes in one fly, having the transgenes in different loci allows for...brief introduction as to how you can engineer new transgenic flies to study your favorite gene (YFG).
Sometimes...plasmids at Addgene
Choosing a vector to generate a transgenic fly
There are a few important points to consider...that you can control exactly in which locus your transgene ends up (1):
Random insertion has the advantage...you can get varying expression levels of your transgene in different fly lines. Also, if there is a chance...for genetic recombination so that the transgenes can be inherited on the same chromosome.
Targeted Insertion...