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Overcoming evolved resistance to population-suppressing homing-based gene drives.
Scientific reports - 19 Jun 2017
Marshall John M, Buchman Anna, Sánchez C Héctor M, Akbari Omar S
Abstract excerpt
The recent development of a CRISPR-Cas9-based homing system for the suppression of Anopheles gambiae is encouraging; however, with current designs, the slow emergence of homing-resistant alleles is expected to result in suppressed populations rapidly rebounding, as homing-resistant alleles have a significant fitness advantage over functional, population-suppressing homing alleles. To explore this concern, we...
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