Transmission blocked (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Transmission blocked

Caption

Mosquitoes that readily transmit malarial parasites carry the FREP1 amino acid known as L224 (red dots inside mosquitoes and marked with “L”). The newly developed system uses an allelic gene drive system (scissors) to convert mosquitoes into a population that now carries the malaria-suppressing Q224 allele. (highlighted in green and marked with “Q”).

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Audrey Yeun, Bier Lab, UC San Diego

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Must be used in conjunction with Nature paper on malaria transmission and genetically modified mosquitoes.

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