Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

An efficient and multiple target transgenic RNAi technique with low toxicity in Drosophila

  • Huan-Huan Qiao,
  • Fang Wang,
  • Rong-Gang Xu,
  • Jin Sun,
  • Ruibao Zhu,
  • Decai Mao,
  • Xingjie Ren,
  • Xia Wang,
  • Yu Jia,
  • Ping Peng,
  • Da Shen,
  • Lu-Ping Liu,
  • Zhijie Chang,
  • Guirong Wang,
  • Shao Li,
  • Jun-Yuan Ji,
  • Qingfei Liu,
  • Jian-Quan Ni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06537-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

Read online

Drosophila transgenic RNAi can have drawbacks such as false positives and negative results. Here the authors develop a next generation RNAi system with reduced leakiness of expression and simultaneous knockdown.