Name: pupal and adult injections for rnai and crispr gene editing in nasonia vitripennis
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这项工作部分得到了UCSD启动基金的支持，这些基金拨给O.S.A.和NSF/BIO赠款1645331给J.L.R.

1. 纳索尼亚饲养
<ol><li>将~20名雌性女性单独设置在用棉布插上的小玻璃试管中。 注意：为了减少饲养空间，10 x 85 厘米，4 mL 管是最佳的。女性很容易与男性区别，因为更大的翅膀和存在卵子（图1A）。饲养N.维特里彭尼斯的详细协议也可以在其他文献13，14，15中找到。<ol>
<li>每管增加两个 S....

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随着最近越来越多的使用纳索尼亚维特里彭尼斯作为模型生物体的各种生物问题2，3，7，17，有必要开发和优化注射方法，使一个简化和有效的协议，为N.维特里彭尼斯基因的功能分析。目前涉及基因编辑试剂胚胎微注入的方法具有挑战性，需要专门设备和训练有素的人...

CRISPR/Cas9基因编辑是功能遗传研究的有力技术，特别是在许多新兴的模型生物体，如宝石黄蜂，纳索尼亚维特里彭尼斯。养殖的便利性和完整基因组的可用性使宝石黄蜂成为阐明不同生物过程分子机制的重要实验系统。例如，N.vitripennis最近被用来解开单体性测定系统1、2、B染色体3、4、5、6的生物学以及昼夜和季节性规则7、8的遗传基础的表观遗传基础。使N. vitripennis适合工作的一些功能包括短的生成时间 （+2 周在 25 °C）， 高繁殖率， 容易在 pupal 阶段的性别分离， 以及在 4 °C 下诊断和存储菌株的能力。 生命周期开始于雌性黄蜂寄生在萤虫的幼崽，石棺牛拉塔。通过它们的卵子，雌性在吹飞的幼崽中产下多达50个卵子。卵子发育成幼虫，以S.牛油为食，在接下来的几天里继续发育，然后幼虫，然后成年的萎缩和从宿主puparium 9中出现。
在N.维特里彭尼斯进行功能性遗传研究的分子工具，如RNA干扰（RNAi）10和CRISPR/Cas911，12，是可用的，但有限，主要是因为在执行胚胎微注射13困难。由于N.维特里彭尼斯鸡蛋需要一个幼崽宿主来发展，鸡蛋操纵是非常具有挑战性的。预爆胎阶段胚胎必须从宿主吹飞幼虫中采集，迅速微注入，并立即移植回宿主进行发育13。这些步骤需要精确和专门的训练，以避免损害微注入胚胎或幼崽宿主13。此外，鸡蛋非常小和脆弱，特别是在微注射后，非常粘稠的细胞质导致注射针13的连续堵塞。这些特征使得胚胎微注射极具挑战性，需要训练有素的操作员和大多数N.维特里彭尼斯实验室都不存在的专门设备。
优化用于交付CRISPR试剂的替代注射方法将有助于巩固N.维特里彭尼斯作为模型有机体的地位。与操纵胚胎相比，对幼崽和成人的操纵挑战性较小，可以通过基本的注射设置来完成。在这里，描述了注射幼虫和成人的两个协议：一个涉及注射的专用设备，另一个涉及使用装有玻璃毛细管的吸气管总成。使用吸气管特别适合无法获得胚胎微注射专用设备的实验室。展示了不同发育阶段的N.维特里彭尼斯的有效注射，包括白或黑幼虫和成年黄蜂。白幼崽阶段的黄蜂特别适合 RNAi 调解的击倒实验。虽然在纳索尼亚的RNAi在2006年首次被林奇和德斯普兰描述10，但没有视觉程序可用于如何RNA注射进行。RNAi最近被用来发现B染色体PSR（父性比例）3的增生基因，并研究时钟基因的参与，周期，在N.维特里彭尼斯生物节律7。
黑幼虫和成年黄蜂可用于利用REMOT控制（受体介导的货物卵巢转导）和BAPC（分支两栖肽胶囊）协议诱导CRISPR/Cas9细菌基因编辑。这两种卵巢输送方法最近被描述为在纳索尼亚产生生殖系突变的目标基因，辛纳巴7，12有效。在这里，为注射提供了简化的协议，包括一个循序渐进的方法的视觉程序，可用于在纳索尼亚产生功能遗传学研究，并可能在其他寄生虫黄蜂，而无需专门设备和绕过胚胎微注射。

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pupal and adult injections for rnai and crispr gene editing in nasonia vitripennis

宝石黄蜂 ，纳索尼亚维特里彭尼斯，已成为一个有效的模型系统，研究表观遗传学的单体双体性别测定，B染色体生物学，宿主共生相互作用，斑点和毒液合成。尽管有多种分子工具，包括CRISPR/Cas9，但这种生物体的功能性基因研究仍然有限。在 N.维特里彭尼斯 应用CRISPR/Cas9技术的主要限制源于胚胎微注射的挑战。由于胚胎体小，而且胚胎发育需要宿主幼崽，因此在这个生物体和一般许多寄生虫黄蜂中，胚胎的注射尤其困难。为了应对这些挑战，Cas9核糖核蛋白通过成人注射而不是胚胎微注射复杂地输送到女性卵巢，从而进行了体细胞和遗传性生殖系的编辑。注射程序优化在幼虫和雌性黄蜂使用REMOT控制（受体介导卵巢转导货物）或BAPC（分支的两栖肽胶囊）。这些方法被证明是胚胎注射的有效替代品，使部位特定和遗传性生殖系突变。

本文提出了两个简单的方法，为 pupal 和成人微注射，无论是使用女性喷气机或呼吸管。第一种方法允许更精确地注射液体，这对 RNAi 的一致性很重要，而第二种方法允许向 纳索尼亚 pupae 或成人注射更多液体。
表1中显示的代表性结果显示存活率良好（从20%到89%）使用此处描述的注射方法获得所需的表型（?...

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Pupal and Adult Injections for RNAi and CRISPR Gene Editing in Nasonia vitripennis

在这里，我们将 纳索尼亚维特里彭尼斯 高效注射 pupal 和成人注射的方法描述为胚胎微注射的可访问替代品，通过 RNA 干扰 （RNAi） 或通过 CRISPR/Cas9 基因组编辑进行基因敲除，实现感兴趣的基因的功能分析。

纳索尼亚维特里彭尼斯的 Rnai 和克里斯普基因编辑的普帕尔和成人注射

The jewel wasp, Nasonia vitripennis, has become an efficient model system to study epigenetics of haplo-diploid sex determination, B-chromosome biology, ...

Research on non-canonical insect model, like parasitoid wasp, is limited because embryonic microinjection is very challenging. Our method bypasses this problem, enabling site-specific and heritable germline mutations. Injecting pupae or adult females is fast and removes the requirement for expensive equipment or specialized training required to achieve successful embryonic microinjections.This technique will allow no specialized labs that do not have access to expensive equipment to do functional studies in any insect species they are using as a model. After the optimization, this method can be used to study functional genetics of many other genes in Nasonia. We also think this method may be used to deliver nucleic acids for genetic transformation of Nasonia or other insects.Begin by setting up approximately 20 mated females singularly in small glass test tubes plugged with cotton. Add two S.bullata hosts per tube and maintain the wasps at 25 degrees Celsius and 30%relative humidity with a 12:12 light dark cycle for two to three days. After two to three days, gently remove the females using a fine tipped brush to avoid continuous over position and a synchrony in offspring development.Removed females can optionally be re-hosted or stored at five degrees Celsius for up to a month. Maintain the parasitized host at 25 degrees Celsius and 30%relative humidity with a 12:12 light dark cycle for seven days if the desired injection stage requires white pupae, for 13 days, if the required developmental stage is black pupae, or 14 days for young, newly emerged adults. When the desired stage is reached, crack open the host puparium with a dissecting needle to recover N.vitripennis pupae and adults.Prepare a glass slide by applying a line of school glue at the center. Spread the glue with the dissecting needle to obtain a thick layer, which will be used to align the pupae. Let the glue dry for approximately two minutes before transferring the pupae.Under a dissecting microscope, use a dissecting needle to apply glue on the back of the head of the pupa. Attach the pupa to the glue layer on the slide with its abdomen facing up. Align 20 to 30 pupae side-by-side on the slide.Place the slide with the pupae and a Petri dish to let the glue drive for approximately 10 minutes. Before starting the injections, test the adherence of the pupae to the glue by pushing them gently with the dissecting needle. If most of the pupae are loosened, prepare a new slide.Alternatively, remove all loose pupae and proceed to inject those that are properly attached to the slide. Load one capillary glass tube into a needle puller and pull needles following the manufacturer's instructions. Load the needle with five microliters of the prepared injection mixture using microloader pipette tips.Open the needle, sliding the tip on a surface made from two overlapping slides. Alternatively, open the tip of the needle with a pair of fine forceps to create a sharp edge. Place the slide with the aligned pupae under a dissecting microscope, then insert the needle into the femtojet's injection tube and tighten the grip head.Looking at the needle under the microscope, turn on the femtojet and set the compensation pressure and injection pressure parameters by rotating the rotary knobs. Carefully insert the needle between the second and third visible abdominal segments with a vertical angle of about 30 degrees. Inject with a continuous flow until the whole abdomen turns green in the case of white stage pupae or until the abdomen increases in size in the case of black pupae.Stop injecting when it is clear that the abdomen cannot take any more liquid or when the liquid starts flowing out of the body. Move carefully to the next pupa and repeat these steps. Transfer the slide with the injected pupae to a Petri dish.Cover the dish with its lid and place it at 25 degrees Celsius until wasp emergence. For adult preparation, separate groups of 20 virgin females in a clean small test tube with a fine paint brush. Place a glass slide on top of ice and align the female side by side on the cold slide with abdomens facing up under a dissecting scope.Load one needle with the ribonucleoprotein solution using a microloading tip and insert the needle into the connector pack of the aspirator tube assembly. Support the females from the opposite side with blunted dissecting needles, while injecting slowly into the abdomen. Avoid touching the ovipositor.This will severely damage this critical reproductive structure. Carefully insert the needle between the second and third visible abdominal segments with a vertical angle of about 30 degrees. Inject the solution into the female abdomen, stopping when no more liquid can enter or when leaking of surplus solution is observed.Move carefully to the next female and repeat these steps. When finished, gently transfer a single injected females to a new tube with one host using a paintbrush. Leave them to recover at room temperature for approximately one hour, confirm survival, and return the tubes to the rearing incubator.After adult eclosion from the injected pupae, place single wasps into a glass to plugged with cotton and insert one S.bullata host. For CRISPR/Cas9 knockout experiments, allow females to parasitize the host for one day and replace the host each day for three consecutive days. Place the parasitized host, set 25 degrees Celsius until emergence of the G0 male offspring, approximately 13 to 14 days.Under a dissecting microscope, screen G0 males for the mutated phenotypes. The cinnabar gene is responsible for eye pigmentation. Wasps with brown eyes are wild-type and wasps with bright red eyes or variations between red and brown eyes are mutants.This protocol can be used for either pupal or adult microinjection. Survival rates of this procedure range from 15 to 100%The efficiency of achieving the desired phenotype via RNAi or CRISPR without requiring laborious egg injections is shown here. When injecting pupae or adult females, the needle should be sharp and be introduced in a way that liquid should not leak immediately after injecting.If this happens, remove the needle, ensure that the tip is fine and sharp, change it if necessary or inject in a different location. Function analysis can be performed on the gene of interest targeted from this procedure. This will answer a question about the gene function and if the gene is necessary for the specific phenotype studied.

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