Genetic Control Of Malaria Mosquitoes

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• 作者：Kyle Jarrod McLean¹ ; Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena¹ ; ^{mlorena@jhsph.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 刊名：Trends in Parasitology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：32
• 期：3
• 页码：174-176
• 全文大小：392 K

文摘

Experiments demonstrating the feasibility of genetically modifying mosquito vectors to impair their ability to transmit the malaria parasite have been known for well over a decade. However, means to spread resistance or population control genes into wild mosquito populations remains an unsolved challenge. Two recent reports give hope that CRISPR technology may allow such challenge to be overcome.