Keywords: Limnoperna fortunei Synthetic biology

A sustainable synthetic biology approach for the control of the invasive golden mussel (Limnoperna fortunei) M. F. Rebelo, L. F. Afonso, J. A. Americo, L. da Silva, J. L. B. Neto, F. Dondero and Q. Zhang,  PeerJ Preprints,  6:e27164v3. 2018. The recent development of the CRISPR-Cas9-based gene drive has created the conditions to seriously consider this technology to solve one of the major environmental challenges in biodiversity conservation i.e. the control of invasive species. There is no efficient control method ... Keywords: biodiversity, biological invasion, conservation, CRISPR-Cas9, gene drive synthetic, Golden mussel, invasive species, Limnoperna fortunei Synthetic biology, South America