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Introduction of a male-harming mitochondrial haplotype via ‘Trojan Females’ achieves population suppression in fruit flies

Pests are a global threat to biodiversity, ecosystem function, and human health. Pest control approaches are thus numerous, but their implementation costly, damaging to non-target species, and ineffective at low population densities. The Trojan Female Technique (TFT) is a prospective self-perpetuati...

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Autores principales: Wolff, Jonci Nikolai, Gemmell, Neil J, Tompkins, Daniel M, Dowling, Damian K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5441865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28467301
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.23551