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Wolbachia and cytoplasmic incompatibility in mosquitoes

Sinkins, SP, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 34:723-729. 2004.

Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacteria that induce cytoplasmic incompatibility in mosquitoes, and are able to use these patterns of sterility to spread themselves through populations. For this reason they have been proposed as a gene drive system for mosquito genetic ...
Keywords: conversion, DNA, elements, gene drive ecology, gene drive evolution, gene drive genetics, gene drive natural, homing endonuclease, ins, intein, outcrossed sex, outs, pathway, population invasion, saccharomyces-cerevisiae, selfish gene, site-specific endonuclease, system, yeast

Outcrossed sex allows a selfish gene to invade yeast populations

Goddard, MRG, D.; Burt, A., Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 268:2537-2542. 2001.

Homing endonuclease genes (HEGs) in eukaryotes are optional genes that have no obvious effect on host phenotype except for causing chromosomes not containing a cop), of the gene to be cut, thus causing them to be inherited at a greater than Mendelian rate via gene conversion. ...
Keywords: conversion, DNA, elements, gene drive ecology, gene drive evolution, gene drive genetics, gene drive natural, homing endonuclease, ins, intein, outcrossed sex, outs, pathway, population invasion, saccharomyces-cerevisiae, selfish gene, site-specific endonuclease, system, yeast