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Synthetically Engineered <i>Medea</i> Gene Drive System in the Worldwide Crop Pest, <i>D. suzukii</i>
2017-07-11
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Synthetic gene drive systems possess enormous potential to replace, alter, or suppress wild populations of significant disease vectors and crop pests; however, their utility in diverse populations remains to be demonstrated. Here, we report the creation of the first-ever synthetic Medea gene drive element in a major worldwide crop pest, D. suzukii . We demonstrate that this drive element, based on an engineered...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f51419c3-0ad0-5102-974e-52f04787406d
- DOI
- 10.1101/162255