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Nix alone is sufficient to convert female Aedes aegypti into fertile males and myo-sex is needed for male flight
A dominant male-determining locus (M-locus) establishes the male sex (M/m) in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Nix, a gene in the M-locus, was shown to be a male-determining factor (M factor) as somatic knockout of Nix led to feminized males (M/m) while transient expression of Nix resulted...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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National Academy of Sciences
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7395513/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32661163 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001132117 |