All Outputs (2)

A synthetic sex ratio distortion system for the control of the human malaria mosquito. (2014)
Journal Article
Galizi, R., Doyle, L. A., Menichelli, M., Bernardini, F., Deredec, A., Burt, A., …Crisanti, A. (2014). A synthetic sex ratio distortion system for the control of the human malaria mosquito. Nature communications, 3977 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4977

It has been theorized that inducing extreme reproductive sex ratios could be a method to suppress or eliminate pest populations. Limited knowledge about the genetic makeup and mode of action of naturally occurring sex distorters and the prevalence of... Read More about A synthetic sex ratio distortion system for the control of the human malaria mosquito..

Site-specific genetic engineering of the Anopheles gambiae Y chromosome. (2014)
Journal Article
Bernardini, F., Galizi, R., Menichelli, M., Papathanos, P., Dritsou, V., Marois, E., …Windbichler, N. (2014). Site-specific genetic engineering of the Anopheles gambiae Y chromosome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 7600 - 7605. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1404996111

Despite its function in sex determination and its role in driving genome evolution, the Y chromosome remains poorly understood in most species. Y chromosomes are gene-poor, repeat-rich and largely heterochromatic and therefore represent a difficult t... Read More about Site-specific genetic engineering of the Anopheles gambiae Y chromosome..