Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and the CRISPR-
associated gene Cas9 represent an invaluable system for the precise editing of genes in …

Discovered as a bacterial adaptive immune system, CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered, regularly
interspaced, short palindromic repeat/CRISPR associated) is being developed as an …

Walking is a rhythmic locomotor behavior of legged animals, and its underlying mechanisms
have been the subject of neurobiological research for more than 100 years. In this article, we …

Cadherins have been identified as receptors of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Cry1A toxins in
several lepidopteran insects including the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera …

Locusts are important agricultural pests worldwide and regarded as study models for
entomology. However, the absence of targeted gene manipulation systems for locusts has …

Functional gene analysis by using genome editing techniques is limited only in few model
insects. Here, we reported an efficient and heritable gene mutagenesis analysis in an …

Despite their capacity to acquire and pass on an array of debilitating pathogens, research on
ticks has lagged behind other arthropod vectors, such as mosquitoes, largely because of …

Mosquito-borne pathogens place an enormous burden on human health. The existing toolkit
is insufficient to support ongoing vector-control efforts towards meeting disease elimination …

Abstract The eastern North American monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, is an emerging
model system to study the neural, molecular, and genetic basis of animal long-distance …

The European honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) is used as a model organism in studies of the
molecular and neural mechanisms underlying social behaviors and/or advanced brain …