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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2021

Identification of maternal-effect genes in zebrafish using maternal crispants.

Cara E Moravec, Gabriella C Voit, Jarred Otterlee, Francisco Pelegri

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Bridging maternal effects and epitranscriptomics: A novel perspective in developmental biology.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Cara E MoravecLaboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1670-6406
Gabriella C VoitLaboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Jarred OtterleeLaboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Francisco PelegriLaboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0464-7042
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Diversity Supplement: Cytokinesis and RNA segregation in zebrafish developmentR01GM065303 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI PELEGRI, FRANCISCO J · 2002 to 2023
$4.7M
Cytokinesis and RNA Segregation in Zebrafish DevelopmentR56GM065303 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI PELEGRI, FRANCISCO J · 2007 to 2007
$254k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM065303NIGMS NIH HHS R56 GM065303
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In animals, early development is dependent on a pool of maternal factors, both RNA and proteins, which are required for basic cellular processes and cell differentiation until zygotic genome activation. The role of the majority of these maternally expressed factors is not fully understood. By exploiting the biallelic editing ability of CRISPR-Cas9, we identify and characterize maternal-effect genes in a single generation, using a maternal crispant technique. We validated the ability to generate biallelic mutations in the germ line by creating maternal crispants that phenocopied previously characterized maternal-effect genes: birc5b, tmi and mid1ip1. Additionally, by targeting maternally expressed genes of unknown function in zebrafish, we identified two maternal-effect zebrafish genes, kpna7 and fhdc3. The genetic identity of these maternal crispants was confirmed by sequencing haploid progeny from F0 females, which allowed the analysis of newly induced lesions in the maternal germ line. Our studies show that maternal crispants allow for the effective identification and primary characterization of maternal-effect genes in a single generation, facilitating the reverse genetics analysis of maternal factors that drive embryonic development.

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CRISPR-Cas SystemsMaternal InheritanceAnimalsGene EditingOvumZebrafishZebrafish ProteinsZebrafish ProteinsCrisprEarly developmentFhdc3Genome editingKpna7Maternal effectZebrafish

Identifiers

PMID34463742
PMCPMC8543149
OpenAlexW3198579072

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