Protocol

Injection of Lentivirus into Stage-X Blastoderm for the Production of Transgenic Quail

  1. Rusty Lansford1
  1. Division of Biology and the Biological Imaging Center, Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
  1. 1Corresponding author (rusty{at}caltech.edu)
This article is also available in Emerging Model Organisms: A Laboratory Manual, Vol. 1. CSHL Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA, 2009.

INTRODUCTION

This protocol describes how to generate transgenic quail by injecting a lentiviral vector into freshly laid Japanese quail eggs at stage X. The lentivirus infects primordial germ cells originating in the area pellucida.

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