Erratum: Targeted disruption of a single sex pheromone receptor gene completely abolishes in vivo pheromone response in the silkmoth
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This Article contains a typographical error in the Result section under subheading 'Generation of BmOR1-knockout silkmoths'. " When the RT-PCR experiments were performed with a 5′ primer designed to anneal the deleted sequence , no amplification products were detected from the homozygous mutant (hereafter referred to as BmOR1−/BmOR1+) male antennae ". should read: " When the RT-PCR experiments were performed with a 5′ primer designed to anneal the deleted sequence , no amplification products were detected from the homozygous mutant (hereafter referred to as BmOR1−/BmOR1−) male antennae " .
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