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Towards a genetic approach to invasive rodent eradications: assessing reproductive competitiveness between wild and laboratory mice

M. Serr, N. Heard and J. Godwin, Island invasives: scaling up to meet the challenge, 2019.

House mice are significant invasive pests, particularly on islands without native mammalian predators. As part of a multi-institutional project aimed at suppressing invasive mouse populations on islands, we aim to create heavily male-biased sex ratios with the goal of causing the ...
Keywords: adaptation, Aedes aegypti, Anopheles gambiae, biological control, competition, drosophila, dynamics, gene drive mechanisms, gene drive models, gene drive natural, genetic load, homing endonucleases, insects, mosquito, population, transmission, vector, vector control

Requirements for effective malaria control with homing endonuclease genes

Deredec, AG, H. C. J.; Burt, A., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108:e874-e880. 2011.

Malaria continues to impose a substantial burden on human health. We have previously proposed that biological approaches to control the mosquito vector of disease could be developed using homing endonuclease genes (HEGs), a class of selfish or parasitic gene that exists naturally ...
Keywords: adaptation, Aedes aegypti, Anopheles gambiae, biological control, competition, drosophila, dynamics, gene drive mechanisms, gene drive models, gene drive natural, genetic load, homing endonucleases, insects, mosquito, population, transmission, vector, vector control