Optimising Homing Endonuclease Gene Drive Performance in a Semi-Refractory Species: The Drosophila melanogaster Experience

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chan, Yuk Sang ^a   Huen, David S ^a,c   Glauert, Ruth ^a   Whiteway, Eleanor ^a,d   Russell, Steven ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; ENDONUCLEASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BETATUB85D GENE; BGCN GENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMING ENDONUCLEASE GENE; HSP70 GENE; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT GENOME; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RCD 1R GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TBPH GENE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSGENE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SPERMATOGENESIS; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84872550050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054130     Document Type: Article

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