Engineering the genomes of wild insect populations: Challenges, and opportunities provided by synthetic Medea selfish genetic elements

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1402-1413

  Hay, Bruce A ^a   Chen, Chun Hong ^b   Ward, Catherine M ^a   Huang, Haixia ^a   Su, Jessica T ^a   Guo, Ming ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dengue; Malaria; Maternal; Medea; Mosquito; Pest; Population replacement; Selfish genetic element

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC DNA;

FITNESS; FLY; GENOME; GENOMICS; MALARIA; MATERNAL EFFECT; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPLACEMENT; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GENOME; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS; INSECT GENOME;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 77955419009     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.05.022     Document Type: Review

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