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Julien Devilliers1,2, Elena Emili3,4, Virginia Vanni3,5
1Neurogenetics Group, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
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Single-cell RNA-sequencing revolutionized our approach of transcriptomic studies, enabling to analyze gene expression across cell type in a tissue. Here we introduce an optimized cell dissociation and a Split Pool Ligation-based Transcriptome sequencing (SPLiT-seq) protocol to perform single-cell RNA-seq in insects. Up to 400,000 cells can be used as starting material within a single experiment.

