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Harnessing Wolbachia cytoplasmic incompatibility alleles for confined gene drive: A modeling study.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jan 2023
Li Jiahe, Champer Jackson
Abstract excerpt
Wolbachia are maternally-inherited bacteria, which can spread rapidly in populations by manipulating reproduction. cifA and cifB are genes found in Wolbachia phage that are responsible for cytoplasmic incompatibility, the most common type of Wolbachia reproductive interference. In this phenomenon, no viable offspring are produced when a male with both cifA and cifB (or just cifB in some systems) mates with a...
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