In a recent report in PNAS, Buchman et al. (2018) describe the construction and development of a MEDEA-based gene drive system in the crop pest, Drosophila suzukii. Buchman et al revisited the MEDEA-based gene drive approach developed in D. melanogaster […]
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Medusa: Harnessing a Sex-Linked Transgenic Drive System to Control Insect Populations
Segregation distorters (also known as drive genes) are selfish genetic elements with a natural fitness advantage – they are passed to greater than fifty percent of offspring in the next generation, breaking Mendel’s first law of inheritance. In nature, drive […]