Engineered sex ratio distortion by X-shredding in the global agricultural pest Ceratitis capitata
Abstract Background Genetic sex ratio distorters are systems aimed at effecting a bias in the reproductive sex ratio of a population and could be applied for the area-wide control of sexually reproducing insects that vector disease or disrupt agricultural production. One example of such a system lea...
Main Authors: | Angela Meccariello, Flavia Krsticevic, Rita Colonna, Giuseppe Del Corsano, Barbara Fasulo, Philippos Aris Papathanos, Nikolai Windbichler |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-04-01
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Series: | BMC Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01010-7 |
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