Sex separation strategies: Past experience and new approaches

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages

  Papathanos, Philippos A ^a   Bossin, Hervé C ^b   Benedict, Mark Q ^c   Catteruccia, Flaminia ^a   Malcolm, Colin A ^d   Alphey, Luke ^e,f   Crisanti, Andrea ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT LOUIS MALARDÉ   (French Polynesia)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e OXITEC LIMITED   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE STERILITY; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; REARING; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES; TRANSGENICS; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENE TRANSFER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSGENES;

EID: 72149108989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-S2-S5     Document Type: Article

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