Keywords: release
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Please support a global moratorium on the environmental release of gene drive organismsJ. Riss, J. Munic and B. Harlin, Open Letter, 2020.
J. Riss, J. Munic and B. Harlin (2020). Open Letter. We, the undersigned civil society organizations, write to you to request that the EU Commission fully supports the EU Parliament's call for a global moratorium on the release of Gene Drive Organisms (GDOs). This is in view of ... |
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‘Just Add Water’ GM Mosquitoes Suppress Wild Population by 95%H. Alber, , 2020.
In order to reduce the spread of dengue, Oxitec releases genetically modified male Aedes mosquitoes into the environment. Once in the wild, these insects breed with local female mosquitoes and pass on a gene that causes female offspring to die at an early age. This method was ... |
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Gene Drives in Africa: Civil Society Speaks OutAfrican Centre for Biodiversity, African Centre for Biodiversity, 2019.
On Monday 1st July 2019, Target Malaria announced the release of genetically modified (GM) sterile male mosquitoes in Bana, a village in Burkina Faso – the first GM insect to be released in Africa. This is Phase I – by Phase III, Target Malaria aims to release gene drive ... |
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Yes we can! Exciting progress and prospects for controlling invasives on islands and beyondD. Simberloff, B. Keitt, D. Will, N. Holmes, E. Pickett and P. Genovesi, Western North American Naturalist, 78:942-958. 2018.
Eradication and maintenance management of island invasive species have long histories, and incremental improvements of existing technologies plus occasional novel approaches have led to more challenging targets and increased success rates in certain categories. Many nonnative ... |
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The optimal implementation of the Trojan Y chromosome eradication strategy of invasive speciesM. R. Kelly and X. Y. Wang, Journal of Biological Systems, 25:399-418. 2017.
Invasive aquatic species continue to be a persistent problem around the world. The Trojan Y Chromosome (TYC) eradication strategy has recently been developed to help fight the problem in aquatic systems by targeting only the invasive species, sparing native marine stock. It ... |
