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ArticlePeerJ2019

Spatial structure undermines parasite suppression by gene drive cargo.

James J Bull, Christopher H Remien, Richard Gomulkiewicz, Stephen M Krone

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Article in PeerJ, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Gene drive that results in addiction to a temperature-sensitive version of an essential gene triggers population collapse inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 authors.

James J BullDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States of America.
Christopher H RemienDepartment of Mathematics, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States of America.
Richard GomulkiewiczSchool of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America.
Stephen M KroneDepartment of Mathematics, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States of America.

Funding

Sequence-structure-function relationships in human visual photopigmentsP20GM104420 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO · PI WICHMAN, HOLLY A · 2015 to 2024
$22.9M
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF TRANSMISSIBLE VACCINES R01GM122079 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO · PI SCOTT L NUISMER · 2016 to 2026
$2.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM104420NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM122079
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene drives may be used in two ways to curtail vectored diseases. Both involve engineering the drive to spread in the vector population. One approach uses the drive to directly depress vector numbers, possibly to extinction. The other approach leaves intact the vector population but suppresses the disease agent during its interaction with the vector. This second application may use a drive engineered to carry a genetic cargo that blocks the disease agent. An advantage of the second application is that it is far less likely to select vector resistance to block the drive, but the disease agent may instead evolve resistance to the inhibitory cargo. However, some gene drives are expected to spread so fast and attain such high coverage in the vector population that, if the disease agent can evolve resistance only gradually, disease eradication may be feasible. Here we use simple models to show that spatial structure in the vector population can greatly facilitate persistence and evolution of resistance by the disease agent. We suggest simple approaches to avoid some types of spatial structure, but others may be intrinsic to the populations being challenged and difficult to overcome.

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EcologyEradicationEvolutionGenetic engineeringInterventionMathematical modelSelfish genes

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PMID31681512
PMCPMC6824332

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