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Heritable genome editing with CRISPR/Cas9 induces anosmia in a crop pest moth.
Scientific reports - 12 Jul 2016
Koutroumpa Fotini A, Monsempes Christelle, François Marie-Christine, de Cian Anne, Royer Corinne, Concordet Jean-Paul, Jacquin-Joly Emmanuelle
Abstract excerpt
Lepidoptera suffer critical lack of genetic tools and heritable genome edition has been achieved only in a few model species. Here we demonstrate that the CRISPR/Cas9 system is highly efficient for genome editing in a non-model crop pest Lepidoptera, the noctuid moth Spodoptera littoralis. We knocked-out the olfactory receptor co-receptor Orco gene to investigate its function in Lepidoptera olfaction. We find...
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