CRISPR-based gene drives for pest control

Tags: Agriculture, Gene drive synthetic, Other arthropods
McFarlane, GRW, C. Bruce A.; Lillico, Simon G., Trends in Biotechnology, 36:130-133. 2018.

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based gene drives (GDs) could be used to spread desirable genetic elements through wild populations. With the imminent development of this technology in vertebrates, we believe that it is timely to highlight two forms of sex-ratio distorting GDs that show potential as pest management tools.