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Development of a population suppression strain of the human malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles stephensi

BACKGROUND: Transgenic mosquito strains are being developed to contribute to the control of dengue and malaria transmission. One approach uses genetic manipulation to confer conditional, female-specific dominant lethality phenotypes. Engineering of a female-specific flightless phenotype provides a s...

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Autores principales: Marinotti, Osvaldo, Jasinskiene, Nijole, Fazekas, Aniko, Scaife, Sarah, Fu, Guoliang, Mattingly, Stefanie T, Chow, Karissa, Brown, David M, Alphey, Luke, James, Anthony A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3648444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23622561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-142