Remove genes for non-essential functions from the perspective of engineering organisms as food (such as shell production, wing development).

Silence genes involved in dormancy or molting to increase development and reproductive cycle-time.

Develop synthetic anti-molting peptide that normally limits growth and reproductive cycle-time, to include in feed.

Develop inducible system that increases the number of molts/year (especially at adult stage) to speed up development time and reach reproductive age more quickly.

Develop a system that allows crustacea to continuously molt by overexpressing steroid hormones.

Change or modulate hormonal pathways that limit growth by changing expression of pathway genes.

Design enzymes that degrade hormones to prevent development from larvae to adults (for insects food sources).

Inducible system that allows tunable expression of proteins or full pathway to maximize growth rate or biomass accumulation.

Develop a system that allows crustacea to continuously molt by overexpressing steroid hormones.