Advanced technologies for genetically manipulating the silkworm bombyx mori, a model lepidopteran insect

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1810, 2015, Pages

  Xu, Hanfu ^a   O’Brochta, David A ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene manipulation; Genome editing technology; Insect; Silkworm; Transposon based technology

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHROMOSOME; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; GENOME; INSECT; PROTEIN;

BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA;

SILK;

ANIMAL; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BOMBYX; DEVICES; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SECRETION (PROCESS); TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BOMBYX; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; SILK;

EID: 84933073756     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0487     Document Type: Review

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