Population-level effects of fitness costs associated with repressible female-lethal transgene insertions in two pest insects

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 597-606

  Harvey Samuel, Tim ^a,b   Ant, Thomas ^a,b   Gong, Hongfei ^b   Morrison, Neil I ^b   Alphey, Luke ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OXITEC LIMITED   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fitness costs; Genetic engineering; Insect; Integrated pest management; Release of insects carrying a dominant lethal; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902185822     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eva.12159     Document Type: Article

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