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All-in-one live: genes trapped, tagged and conditionally broken

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A transposon-insertion method can trap and mutate genes while simultaneously revealing their spatiotemporal expression pattern, all in a conditional manner in the live, transparent zebrafish.

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Figure 1: Genes trapped, tagged and mutated in the zebrafish.

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