Gene drive systems for insect disease vectors

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 427-435

  Sinkins, Steven P ^a   Gould, Fred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENDONUCLEASE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DENGUE; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DRIVE SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; LIFESPAN; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTS; MODELS, GENETIC; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PARASITIC DISEASES; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 33646882131     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1870     Document Type: Review

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