Abstract
Hemimetabolous, or incompletely metamorphosing, insects are phylogenetically basal and include many beneficial and deleterious species. The cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus, is an emerging model for hemimetabolous insects, based on the success of RNA interference (RNAi)-based gene-functional analyses and transgenic technology. Taking advantage of genome editing technologies in this species would greatly promote functional genomics studies. Genome editing has proven to be an effective method for site-specific genome manipulation in various species. Here, we describe a protocol for genome editing including gene knockout and gene knockin in G. bimaculatus for functional genomics studies.
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Watanabe, T., Noji, S., Mito, T. (2017). Genome Editing in the Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus . In: Hatada, I. (eds) Genome Editing in Animals. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1630. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7128-2_18
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