Cheating evolution: Engineering gene drives to manipulate the fate of wild populations

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 146-159

  Champer, Jackson ^a   Buchman, Anna ^a   Akbari, Omar S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; GUIDE RNA; NUCLEASE; SYNTHETIC DNA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HARMFUL ORGANISM; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMING ENDONUCLEASE GENE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS, POPULATION; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84958617028     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2015.34     Document Type: Review

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