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Erin Gestl

polymerasesDNA templatefluorophorepolymerasepolymerase levelsDNA replication and stabilityvertebrate modelzebrafish

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Phone: 610-436-2760

Cheng, K. C., Kauffman, E. J., and Gestl, E. E. (1993). Tidbits (nibbles) on raising zebrafish babies. Zebrafish Science Monitor, 2, 6. Kauffman, E., Gestl, E., Kim, D., Walker, C., Hite, J., Yan, G. Rogan, P., Johnson, S., Cheng, K. (1995) Microsatellite-Centromere Mapping in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio). Genomics 30, 337-341 Gestl, E. E. and Cheng, K. C. (1995). A small zebrafish facility. Zebrafish Science Monitor. 3, 6-8. Gestl, E., Kauffman, E., Moore, J., Cheng, K. (1997) New Conditions for Generation of Gynogenetic Half-Tetrad Embryos in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio). Journal of Heredity, 88, 76-79. Moore, J. L., Gestl E. E., and Cheng, K. C. (2004). Chapter: Mosaic Eyes, Genomic Instability Mutants and Cancer Susceptibility. Methods in Cell Biology, Vol 76, 555-568. Gestl, E. E. and Eckert, K. A. (2005). Loss of DNA Minor Groove Interactions by Exonuclease-Deficient Klenow Polymerase Inhibits O6-Methylguanine and Abasic Site Translesion Synthesis, Biochemistry. 44, 7059-7068. Chenxu Yu, Erin Gestl, Kristin Eckert, David Allara and Joseph Irudayaraj (2006). Characterization of Human Breast Epithelial Cells by Confocal Raman Microspectroscopy. Cancer Detection and Prevention, 30, 507-514. Erin Gestl and Kristin Eckert (2008). Chapter: Making Mutations is an Active Process: Methods to Examine DNA Polymerase Errors. The Handbook of Plant Mutagenesis and Mutant Screening . In press.