nanos regulatory sequences (~700bp promoter sequence, the 5'UTR and the 3'UTR) regulate expression of Spyo\Cas9 carrying a H840A amino acid replacement. This mutation is predicted to inactivate the HNH domain and should result in the encoded protein acting as a nickase that cleaves a single DNA strand when targeted to a genomic site of interest using sgRNA, however only very low levels of mutagenesis were seen when this transgene was used in combination with two sgRNAs targeting a region of interest.