A synthetic sex ratio distortion system for the control of the human malaria mosquito

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Galizi, Roberto ^a,b   Doyle, Lindsey A ^b   Menichelli, Miriam ^a   Bernardini, Federica ^a   Deredec, Anne ^a   Burt, Austin ^a   Stoddard, Barry L ^c   Windbichler, Nikolai ^a   Crisanti, Andrea ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; I PPOI PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOENGINEERING; CHROMOSOME; DISEASE VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOSQUITO; PEST SPECIES; PROTEIN; SEX RATIO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROL STRATEGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEX RATIO; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYNTHETIC SEX RATIO DISTORTION SYSTEM; VECTOR CONTROL; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; PARASITOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; SEX RATIO; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84902140512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4977     Document Type: Article

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