Roy Kirsch loading a third-generation sequencer (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Roy Kirsch loading a third-generation sequencer

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Roy Kirsch loading a third-generation sequencer: So-called nanopore sequencing made it possible to decode the genome of the model beetle Phaedon cochleariae. This was the prerequisite for subsequent genome editing based on the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, as well as for the characterization (genotyping) of the beetle lines generated in this way (knockout mutants that no longer had pectinases).

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Anna Schroll

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