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Building-blocks of embryogenesis

Mutant screens have become a successful approach in vertebrates, but cloning the mutated genes can be an arduous task. Now an insertional mutagenesis method in the zebrafish bypasses this difficulty and is used to clone 75 mutated genes!

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Mullins, M. Building-blocks of embryogenesis. Nat Genet 31, 125–126 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0602-125

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