Tribolium castaneum: A Model Insect for Fundamental and Applied Research

JF Campbell, CG Athanassiou… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Tribolium castaneum has a long history as a model species in many distinct subject areas,
but improved connections among the genetics, genomics, behavioral, ecological, and pest …

CRISPR/Cas9 for insect pests management: a comprehensive review of advances and applications

S Singh, S Rahangdale, S Pandita, G Saxena… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Insect pests impose a serious threat to agricultural productivity. Initially, for pest
management, several breeding approaches were applied which have now been gradually …

Evolution of DNA methylation across insects

AJ Bewick, KJ Vogel, AJ Moore… - Molecular biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation contributes to gene and transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes, and
therefore has been hypothesized to facilitate the evolution of plastic traits such as sociality in …

DIPA-CRISPR is a simple and accessible method for insect gene editing

Y Shirai, MD Piulachs, X Belles, T Daimon - Cell Reports Methods, 2022 - cell.com
Current approaches for insect gene editing require microinjection of materials into early
embryos. This severely limits the application of gene editing to a great number of insect …

Germline Cas9 expression yields highly efficient genome engineering in a major worldwide disease vector, Aedes aegypti

M Li, M Bui, T Yang, CS Bowman… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The development of CRISPR/Cas9 technologies has dramatically increased the accessibility
and efficiency of genome editing in many organisms. In general, in vivo germline expression …

Progress and prospects of CRISPR/Cas systems in insects and other arthropods

D Sun, Z Guo, Y Liu, Y Zhang - Frontiers in physiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and the CRISPR-
associated gene Cas9 represent an invaluable system for the precise editing of genes in …

[HTML][HTML] Insert, remove or replace: A highly advanced genome editing system using CRISPR/Cas9

SA Ceasar, V Rajan, SV Prykhozhij, JN Berman… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2016 - Elsevier
The clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) and CRISPR
associated protein 9 (Cas9) system discovered as an adaptive immunity mechanism in …

CRISPR/Cas9 in insects: Applications, best practices and biosafety concerns

CNT Taning, B Van Eynde, N Yu, S Ma… - Journal of insect …, 2017 - Elsevier
Discovered as a bacterial adaptive immune system, CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered, regularly
interspaced, short palindromic repeat/CRISPR associated) is being developed as an …

Enhanced genome assembly and a new official gene set for Tribolium castaneum

N Herndon, J Shelton, L Gerischer, P Ioannidis… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum has emerged as an important model
organism for the study of gene function in development and physiology, for ecological and …

The red flour beetle T. castaneum: elaborate genetic toolkit and unbiased large scale RNAi screening to study insect biology and evolution

M Klingler, G Bucher - EvoDevo, 2022 - Springer
The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum has emerged as an important insect model system
for a variety of topics. With respect to studying gene function, it is second only to the vinegar …