Using in ovo electroporation, we devised a method to selectively transfect the auditory inner ear and cochlear nucleus in chicken embryos to achieve a cell-group-specific knockdown of fragile X mental retardation protein during discrete periods of circuit assembly.
Fan, Q., Zhang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, X. Dissecting Cell-Autonomous Function of Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein in an Auditory Circuit by In Ovo Electroporation. J. Vis. Exp. (185), e64187, doi:10.3791/64187 (2022).