Fitness of Transgenic Mosquito Aedes aegypti Males Carrying a Dominant Lethal Genetic System

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Massonnet Bruneel, Blandine ^a   Corre Catelin, Nicole ^a   Lacroix, Renaud ^a,b   Lees, Rosemary S ^c,d   Hoang, Kim Phuc ^c   Nimmo, Derric ^b   Alphey, Luke ^b,c   Reiter, Paul ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b OXITEC LIMITED   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; LONGEVITY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; WILD TYPE;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, LETHAL; GENETIC FITNESS; HOMOZYGOTE; INSEMINATION; LABORATORIES; LONGEVITY; MALE; OVIPOSITION; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 84877730574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062711     Document Type: Article

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