Week 15 (Plant and Animal Cloning Vectors)

  • Production of transformed plants
  • Cloning genes in plants by direct gene transfer
  • Plant viruses as cloning vectors
  • Caulimovirus vectors
  • Geminivirus vectors
  • Cloning vectors for animals
  • Cloning vectors for insects
  • P elements as cloning vectors for Drosophila
  • Cloning vectors based on insect viruses
  • Cloning in mammals
  • Viruses as cloning vectors for mammals
  • Gene cloning without a vector

Reading List 

  1. Brown T. A., Gene Cloning and DNA Manipulation- An Introduction (2006) 5th Ed., Blackwell Publishmg Inc., USA
  2. Prinrose S.B., Twyman R.M., and Old R.W. (2006) Principles of Gene Manipulation, 6th Ed., pp. 50-55.
  3. Tanley W.M.S., and Rapley, Molecular Biomethods Handbook, Chapter 16, Plasmid-Derived Cloning Vectors, Human Press Inc, Totowa. NJ pp, 165-179