Short communicationTransformation of nematodes via ballistic DNA transfer
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Acknowledgements
We thank Professor Dr R. Schnabel for kindly providing marker plasmid pRF4 (rol-6) and for helpful discussions, Dr S. Gerdt for Caenorhabditis elegans, strain N2, and B. Hofmann, N. Pohl and U. Ruppert for excellent technical assistance. This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) via SFB 535. This work was done in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree of P.J. (University of Giessen).
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