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Mice Against Ticks: an experimental community-guided effort to prevent tick-borne disease by altering the shared environment

Mice Against Ticks is a community-guided ecological engineering project that aims to prevent tick-borne disease by using CRISPR-based genome editing to heritably immunize the white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) responsible for infecting many ticks in eastern North America. Introducing antibody-e...

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Autores principales: Buchthal, Joanna, Evans, Sam Weiss, Lunshof, Jeantine, Telford, Sam R., Esvelt, Kevin M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6452264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30905296
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0105