Heritable CRISPR Mutagenesis of Essential Maternal Effect Genes as a Simple Tool for Sustained Population Suppression of Invasive Species in a Zebrafish Model

Invasive species control is important for ecological and agricultural management. Genetic methods can provide species specificity for population control. We developed heritable maternal effect embryo lethality (HMEL), a novel strategy allowing negative population pressure from HMEL individuals to be transmitted within a population across generations. We demonstrate the HMEL technique in zebrafish through genome-integrated CRISPR/Cas targeted mutagenic disruption of nucleoplasmin 2b (npm2b), a female-specific essential maternal effect gene, causing heritable sex-limited disruption of reproduction. HMEL-induced high-efficiency mutation of npm2b in females suppresses population, while males transmit the HMEL allele across generations. HMEL could be easily modified to target other genes causing sex-specific sterility, or generalized to control invasive fish or other vertebrate species for environmental conservation or agricultural protection.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Enthalten in:

Zebrafish - (2024) vom: 20. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Krueger, Christopher J [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Zhifei [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Cheng [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Bo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Invasive species
Journal Article
Maternal effect gene
Population suppression
Sterile male release technique
Zebrafish

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Date Revised 21.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status Publisher

doi:

10.1089/zeb.2023.0108

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370017935