Abstract

Although Daphnia is a widely used model organism with a completely sequenced genome, molecular tools for analyzing specific gene functions are still being developed. Progress has been made in developing CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in Daphnia . However, the gene-editing activity of injected ribonucleoprotein complexes (RNPs), the success of co-injected RNPs with different gRNAs, and the heritability of mutations in asexual progeny need further investigation. Here, we show prolonged Cas9 RNP activity past the one-cell stage injected individuals, leading to a wide range of somatic mutations, and germline mosaicism of heritable biallelic mutations.

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