Female-specific flightless (fsRIDL) phenotype for control of Aedes albopictus

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Labbé, Geneviève M C ^a,b   Scaife, Sarah ^a   Morgan, Siân A ^a   Curtis, Zoë H ^a   Alphey, Luke ^a,c  

^a OXITEC LIMITED   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN 4 GENE; AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FLIGHT MUSCLE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LARVA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VECTOR CONTROL; AEDES; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; FLYING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTIN;

ACTINS; AEDES; ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84864606716     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001724     Document Type: Article

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