Highly efficient Cas9-mediated gene drive for population modification of the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles stephensi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 49, 2015, Pages E6736-E6743

  Gantz, Valentino M ^a   Jasinskiene, Nijole ^b   Tatarenkova, Olga ^b   Fazekas, Aniko ^b   Macias, Vanessa M ^b   Bier, Ethan ^a   James, Anthony A ^b,c  

^a SECTION OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CRISPR; Eradication; MCR; Plasmodium falciparum; Transgenesis

Indexed keywords

CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENICS; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; GENETICS; INSECT VECTOR; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANOPHELES; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL;

EID: 84949220605     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1521077112     Document Type: Article

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