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First Steps towards Underdominant Genetic Transformation of Insect Populations

The idea of introducing genetic modifications into wild populations of insects to stop them from spreading diseases is more than 40 years old. Synthetic disease refractory genes have been successfully generated for mosquito vectors of dengue fever and human malaria. Equally important is the developm...

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Autores principales: Reeves, R. Guy, Bryk, Jarosław, Altrock, Philipp M., Denton, Jai A., Reed, Floyd A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4028297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24844466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097557