GM sterile mosquitoes - A cautionary note [3]

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1067-1068

  Knols, Bart G J ^a   Hood Nowotny, Rebecca C ^a   Bossin, Hervé ^a   Franz, Gerald ^a   Robinson, Alan ^a   Mukabana, Wolfgang R ^b   Kemboi, Samuel K ^b  

^a FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA MODIFICATION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP; LETTER; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION STERILIZATION; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; GENETICALLY MODIFIED MOSQUITO; INSECT CONTROL; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANOPHELES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PLASMIDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX DETERMINATION ANALYSIS; TESTIS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 33748502126     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0906-1067     Document Type: Letter

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