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Population suppression by release of insects carrying a dominant sterile homing gene drive targeting doublesex in Drosophila.
Nature communications - 14 Sept 2024
Chen Weizhe, Guo Jialiang, Liu Yiran, Champer Jackson
Abstract excerpt
CRISPR homing gene drives can suppress pest populations by targeting female fertility genes, converting wild-type alleles into drive alleles in the germline of drive heterozygotes. fsRIDL (female-specific Release of Insects carrying a Dominant Lethal) is a self-limiting population suppression strategy involving continual release of transgenic males carrying female lethal alleles. Here, we propose an improved pest...
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