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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2025

Establishment of CRISPR/Cas9-based knock-in in a hemimetabolous insect: targeted gene tagging in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.

Yuji Matsuoka, Taro Nakamura, Takahito Watanabe, Austen A Barnett, Sayuri Tomonari, Guillem Ylla, Carrie A Whittle, Sumihare Noji, Taro Mito, Cassandra G Extavour

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10 authors.

Yuji MatsuokaDepartment of Life Systems, Institute of Technology and Science, the University of Tokushima Graduate School, 201 Minami-Jyosanjima-cho, Tokushima City 770-8506, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7610-0708
Taro NakamuraDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8341-3115
Takahito WatanabeDepartment of Life Systems, Institute of Technology and Science, the University of Tokushima Graduate School, 201 Minami-Jyosanjima-cho, Tokushima City 770-8506, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-2978-9722
Austen A BarnettDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4290-7594
Sayuri TomonariDepartment of Life Systems, Institute of Technology and Science, the University of Tokushima Graduate School, 201 Minami-Jyosanjima-cho, Tokushima City 770-8506, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7017-7499
Guillem YllaFaculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow 30-387, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-4540-0131
Carrie A WhittleDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9331-0520
Sumihare NojiTokushima University, 2-14 Shinkura-cho, Tokushima City 770-8501, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-4441-1672
Taro MitoDepartment of Life Systems, Institute of Technology and Science, the University of Tokushima Graduate School, 201 Minami-Jyosanjima-cho, Tokushima City 770-8506, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3574-972X
Cassandra G ExtavourDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2922-5855

Funding

Harvard UniversityHoward Hughes Medical InstituteJapan Society for the Promotion of Science 693JSPSNational Science Foundation IOS-1257217
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studies of traditional model organisms such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster have contributed immensely to our understanding of the genetic basis of developmental processes. However, the generalizability of these findings cannot be confirmed without functional genetic analyses in additional organisms. Direct genome editing using targeted nucleases has the potential to transform hitherto poorly understood organisms into viable laboratory organisms for functional genetic study. To this end, we present a method to induce targeted genome knockout and knock-in of desired sequences in an insect that serves as an informative contrast to Drosophila, the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus. The efficiency of germline transmission of induced mutations is comparable with that reported for other well-studied laboratory organisms, and knock-ins targeting introns yield viable, fertile animals in which knock-in events are directly detectable by visualization of a fluorescent marker in the expression pattern of the targeted gene. Combined with the recently assembled and annotated genome of this cricket, this knock-in/knockout method increases the viability of G. bimaculatus as a tractable system for functional genetics in a basally branching insect.

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CRISPR-Cas SystemsGene Knock-In TechniquesGryllidaeAnimalsFemaleGene EditingGene Knockout TechniquesGenome, InsectMaleAbdominal-ACRISPR/Cas9Genome editingHox genesOrthopteraUltrabithorax

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PMID39514640
PMCPMC11829760

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