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We are grateful to our colleagues in the lab for critical and insightful input and helpful comments, to Thorsten Henrich for his pioneering experiments with SB, and to Erika Grzebisz for excellent animal husbandry. This work was supported by grants of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the EU to Joachim Wittbrodt.
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Grabher, C., Wittbrodt, J. (2008). Recent Advances in Meganuclease-and Transposon-Mediated Transgenesis of Medaka and Zebrafish. In: Sharpe, P.T., Mason, I. (eds) Molecular Embryology. METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY™, vol 461. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-483-8_36
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