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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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Autores principales: Aryan, Azadeh, Anderson, Michelle A. E., Biedler, James K., Qi, Yumin, Overcash, Justin M., Naumenko, Anastasia N., Sharakhova, Maria V., Mao, Chunhong, Adelman, Zach N., Tu, Zhijian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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