Keywords: island conservation
A natural gene drive could steer invasive rodents on islands to extinctionB. Brookshire, ScienceNews, 2022.In the battle against the invasive house mouse on islands, scientists are using the rodent’s own genes against it. With the right tweaks, introducing a few hundred genetically altered mice could drive an island’s invasive mouse population to extinction in about 25 years, ... Keywords: gene drive synthetic, invasive species, island conservation, mice, population suppression, sex ratio distortion, t haplotype |
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