Assessment of Developmental and Reproductive Fitness of Dengue-Resistant Transgenic Aedes aegypti and Improvement of Fitness Using Antibiotics
Background. Genetic modification offers opportunities to introduce artificially created molecular defence mechanisms to vector mosquitoes to counter diseases causing pathogens such as the dengue virus, malaria parasite, and Zika virus. RNA interference is such a molecular defence mechanism that coul...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2021-01-01
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Series: | BioMed Research International |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6649038 |