Selection strategy and the design of hybrid oligonucleotide primers for RACE-PCR: cloning a family of toxin-like sequences from <Emphasis Type="Italic">Agelena orientalis</Emphasis>
(1) School of Biological Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK;(2) Shemyakin & Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Ul. Miklukho-Maklaya, 16/10, 117997, GSP, Moscow, V-437, Russia
Abstract:
Background
the use of specific but partially degenerate primers for nucleic acid hybridisations and PCRs amplification of known or unknown
gene families was first reported well over a decade ago and the technique has been used widely since then.