Biocontrol Historical Timeline
Selfish genetic elements
Tags: Evolution, Fruit fly, Gene drive synthetic, Population genetics/dynamics, Replicator/site directed nuclease, Selfish genetic elements, Sex distorter, Transmission distortionAgren, JAC, A. G., PLOS Genetics, 14:20. 2018.
Selfish genetic elements (historically also referred to as selfish genes, ultra-selfish genes, selfish DNA, parasitic DNA, genomic outlaws) are genetic segments that can enhance their own transmission at the expense of other genes in the genome, even if this has no or a negative ...
Genes in conflict: The biology of selfish genetic elements
Burt, A. and R. Trivers, Genes in conflict: the biology of selfish genetic elements, 2008.In evolution, most genes survive and spread within populations because they increase the ability of their hosts (or their close relatives) to survive and reproduce. But some genes spread in spite of being harmful to the host organism—by distorting their own transmission to the ...
History of the Sterile Insect Technique
Tags: Gene drive synthetic, History, Sterile insect technique (SIT)Klassen, W. and C. F. Curtis, Sterile Insect Technique: Principles and Practice in Area-Wide Integrated Pest Managemen, 2005:3-36.. 2005.
During the 1930s and 1940s the idea of releasing insects of pest species to introduce sterility (sterile insect technique or SIT) into wild populations, and thus control them, was independently conceived in three extremely diverse intellectual environments. The key researchers ...


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