Wolbachia and cytoplasmic incompatibility in mosquitoes.

Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacteria that induce cytoplasmic incompatibility in mosquitoes, and are able to use these patterns of sterility to spread themselves through populations. For this reason they have been proposed as a gene drive system for mosquito genetic replacement, as well as for...

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Autor Principal: Sinkins, S
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: 2004
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