- Institution/s: Universidad de Saarbrücken, Universidad de Valladolid
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 165
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Augustine Edith EMENE, Gloria GONZÁLEZ-CALERO, Paloma MOLLEDO PÉREZ, Rosa María FERRERAS LOZANO
- Creation / modification date: 01-02-2014
- Term: cosmid
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: Artificially constructed cloning vector that is used to separate out discrete sections of the DNA for cloning purposes and which contains bacterial phage lambda DNA to allow them to make copies of themselves in their bacterial host and also DNA fragments
- Context: For cloning smaller DNAs charomids must be used. Into the linearized cosmid the foreign DNA is ligated at appropriate cloning sites flanked by cosmid sequences.
- Expression: cosmid vector
- Weighting mark: nor
- Sources:
- Term: EMERY, A. (2009), Elementos de genética médica. Barcelona: Ed. Elsevier, 13ª Edición (revisión científica a cargo del Dr. Rafael Oliva Virgili).
- Definition: BROWN, T. (2007). Genomas. Madrid: Editorial médica panamericana. Cultek S.L.U. (2006). “Tecnología del DNA recombinante”. Recuperado el 26 de mayo de 2013 de: http://www.cultek.com/inf/otros/soluciones/DNA-recombinante/Tecnica%20DNA%20recombinante.pdf
- Context: FERRER, M. (-). “Metagenoma: acceso a los recursos potencialmente ilimitados de microorganismos no cultivables”. Revista Actualidad SEM, temas de actualidad. Recuperado el 27 de mayo de 2013 de: http://www.semicrobiologia.org/pdf/actualidad/SEM38_11.pdf
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