Generation of Transgenic Hydra by Embryo Microinjection

Celina E. Juliano; Haifan Lin; Robert E. Steele

doi:10.3791/51888

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Generación de transgénicos Hydra Por microinyección de embriones

Generation of Transgenic <em>Hydra</em> by Embryo Microinjection

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Generation of Transgenic Hydra by Embryo Microinjection

Generación de transgénicos Hydra Por microinyección de embriones

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Celina E. Juliano¹, Haifan Lin¹, Robert E. Steele²

¹Yale Stem Cell Center and Department of Cell Biology,Yale University School of Medicine, ²Department of Biological Chemistry and the Developmental Biology Center,University of California, Irvine

Summary

Stably transgenic Hydra are made by microinjection of plasmid DNA into embryos followed by random genomic integration and asexual propagation to establish a uniform line. Transgenic Hydra are used to track cell movements, overexpress genes, study promoter function, or knock down gene expression using RNAi.