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Figure 1: In vivo FLPe-mediated target gene excision.
Figure 2: FLPe deleter strains achieve complete excision in the germ line.

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Rodríguez, C., Buchholz, F., Galloway, J. et al. High-efficiency deleter mice show that FLPe is an alternative to Cre-loxP. Nat Genet 25, 139–140 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/75973

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