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Grant

NSF EDGE-CT 

Collaborators

• Ioannis Eleftherianos (Co-PI; George Washington University)
• Paul Shirk (US Department of Agriculture)

Genome Assembly

Plodia interpunctella strain Dundee (2017)

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• Xu J, Chen R-M, Chen S-Q, Chen K, Tang L-M, Yang D-H, et al. Identification of a germline-expression promoter for genome editing in Bombyx mori. Insect Sci. 2019; 26:991–999.
• Eckermann KN, Ahmed HMM, KaramiNejadRanjbar M, Dippel S, Ogaugwu CE, Kitzmann P, et al. Hyperactive piggyBac transposase improves transformation efficiency in diverse insect species. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2018;98:16–24.
• Uchino K, Imamura M, Shimizu K, Kanda T, Tamura T. Germ line transformation of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, using the transposable element Minos. Mol Genet Genomics. 2007;277(3):213–20.