The MutAnts Are Here

Daniel A Friedman; Deborah M Gordon; Liqun Luo

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2017.07.046

The MutAnts Are Here

Cell. 2017 Aug 10;170(4):601-602. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.07.046.

Authors

Daniel A Friedman¹, Deborah M Gordon², Liqun Luo³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: dfri@stanford.edu.
² Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
³ Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

PMID: 28802035
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.07.046

Abstract

The development of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene knockout in two ant species opens a new window into exploring how social insects use olfactory cues to organize their collective behavior.

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MeSH terms

Animals
CRISPR-Cas Systems*
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats*
Gene Knockout Techniques
Insecta / genetics