Targeting Sex Determination to Suppress Mosquito Populations

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Each year, hundreds of millions of people are infected with arboviruses such as dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, and Zika, which are all primarily spread by the notorious mosquito <italic>Aedes aegypti</italic>. Traditional control measures have proven insufficient, necessitating innovations. In response, here we generate a next generation CRISPR-based precision-guided sterile insect...

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• Alleles
• CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
• CRISPR-Cas Systems
• Culex
• Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
• Mosquito-borne diseases and control
• Mosquito Control
• Mosquito Vectors

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Literature Corpus work

7f238f66-39f9-50b6-910a-827830eb84ad

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-2834069/v1