Species: Quail (Coturnix japonica)

Country of 1st Author: United States
Year: 2020

Breed Strain	Japanese
Institute	Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 US
Editing Method	Other
SDN Type	SDN-1
Delivery	By injecting the recombinant adenovirus containing CRISPR/Cas9 into the quail blastoderm, potential germline chimeras were generated and offspring with three base-pair deletion in the targeted region of the MSTN gene was identified
Foreign DNA	No
Undergone Regulatory Process	No

Target Gene(s)

Gene Name	Gene Trait	Trait Category	NGT	Methods/Remarks
MSTN Myostatin	Double muscle	Yield	CRISPR Cas9 (spCas9)	Single Amino Acid Deletion

References, Documents, and Links

• Muscle Hyperplasia in Japanese Quail by Single Amino Acid Deletion in MSTN Propeptide