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Population suppression with dominant female-lethal alleles is boosted by homing gene drive.
BMC biology - 11 Sept 2024
Zhu Jinyu, Chen Jingheng, Liu Yiran, Xu Xuejiao, Champer Jackson
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BACKGROUND: Methods to suppress pest insect populations using genetic constructs and repeated releases of male homozygotes have recently been shown to be an attractive alternative to older sterile insect techniques based on radiation. Female-specific lethal alleles have substantially increased power, but still require large, sustained transgenic insect releases. Gene drive alleles bias their own inheritance to...
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