Laboratory Culture and Mutagenesis of Amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae)
| Autor: | Linda Z. Holland, Guang Li |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
Cephalochordate 0303 health sciences Gene knockdown Branchiostoma Transcription activator-like effector nuclease biology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Mutant Mutagenesis (molecular biology technique) biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Germline 03 medical and health sciences Evolutionary biology Branchiostoma floridae 030304 developmental biology |
| Zdroj: | Methods in Molecular Biology ISBN: 9781071609736 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-1-0716-0974-3_1 |
| Popis: | Cephalochordates (amphioxus) are invertebrate chordates closely related to vertebrates. As they are evolving very slowly, they are proving to be very appropriate for developmental genetics studies aimed at understanding how vertebrates evolved from their invertebrate ancestors. To date, techniques for gene knockdown and overexpression have been developed, but methods for continuous breeding cultures and generating germline mutants have been developed only recently. Here we describe methods for continuous laboratory breeding cultures of the cephalochordate Branchiostoma floridae and the TALEN and Tol2 methods for mutagenesis. Included are strategies for analyzing the mutants and raising successive generations to obtain homozygotes. These methods should be applicable to any warm water species of cephalochordates with a relatively short generation time of 3-4 months and a life span of 3 years or more. |
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