Multi-locus assortment (MLA) for transgene dispersal and elimination in mosquito populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Rasgon, Jason L ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC STRAIN; HETEROZYGOTE; INSECT GENETICS; MALE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION GENETICS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WILD TYPE; AEDES; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENGUE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENOTYPE; MALARIA;

HEXAPODA;

AEDES; ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULICIDAE; DENGUE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 67149116502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005833     Document Type: Article

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