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<i>Nix</i> confers heritable sex-conversion in <i>Aedes aegypti</i> and <i>myo-sex</i> is needed for male flight

2019-04-01

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A dominant and hemizygous male-determining locus (M locus) establishes the male sex (M/m) in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti . Nix is a male-determining factor (M factor) in the M locus and its transient expression in females (m/m) results in partial masculinization. Here, we show that the Nix transgene alone was sufficient to convert females into fertile males, which continued to produce sex-converted...

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Literature Corpus work: e27b6035-b399-5367-875e-9dc1e3fc03d9
DOI: 10.1101/595371

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