This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31702064);Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province(Grant No.C2018201135);Youth Foundation of Hebei Educational Committee(Grant No.QN2019117);The State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents(Grant No.ChineseIPM1709);Natural Science Interdisciplinary Research Program of Hebei University(Grant No.DXK201910);Advanced Talents Incubation Program of Hebei University(Grant No.050001-521000981003);“Giant Plan”of Hebei Province(Grant No.070006-702800116049,070006-702800117003);Post-graduate’s Innovation Fund Project of Hebei Province(Grant No.CXZZSS2019004).
With the wide application of genome editing in insects, a simple and efficient identification method is urgently needed to meet the increasing demand for mutation detection. Here, taking migratory locusts as a model s...
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Supported by the International Foundation for Science(Stockholm,Sweden)(RGA:A/3520-1);the Junior Research Fellowship,Kannur University
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants (Nos. 31472051, 31201710), Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province of China (2014011028-3), Fund Program for the Scientific Activities of Selected Returned Overseas Professionals in Shanxi Province, the Platform Project of Science and Technology in Shanxi Province (2015091010), and National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2012CB114102). We thank Dr. Feng Jiang for critical comments on the manuscript.
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supported by a project of The Major State Basic Research of China (2009CB118706)
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supported by National Program on Key Basic Research Project (Grant No.2009CB118706)
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Acknowledgments This study was supported by grants of the "973" National Basic Research Program of China (2010CB 126100), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. 06105204).
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