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A drug-inducible sex-separation technique for insects

Here, we describe a drug-inducible genetic system for insect sex-separation that demonstrates proof-of-principle for positive sex selection in D. melanogaster. The system exploits the toxicity of commonly used broad-spectrum antibiotics geneticin and puromycin to kill the non-rescued sex. Sex-specif...

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Autores principales: Kandul, Nikolay P., Liu, Junru, Hsu, Alexander D., Hay, Bruce A., Akbari, Omar S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7193620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32355156
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16020-2