During his time as a postdoc in the Patel lab at UC Berkeley, Dr. Arnaud Martin (now faculty at George Washington University), with the help of Berkeley undergrads Joey Papador and Daniel Martinez-Najera, conducted WntA CRISPR experiments on several butterfly species, including Buckeyes, Painted Ladies, and Gulf Fritillaries.
Examples of wild-type and WntA knockout Painted Ladies and Gulf Fritillaries. Photo credit: Arnaud Martin, Aaron Pomerantz, Joey Papador, Daniel Martinez-Najera, and Nipam Patel.
These butterfly CRISPR experiments were published in PNAS, and were featured in the New York Times and on the website of the University of Chicago.
