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ArticleThe Journal of applied ecology2020

Detecting the population dynamics of an autosomal sex ratio distorter transgene in malaria vector mosquitoes.

Paola Pollegioni, Ace R North, Tania Persampieri, Alessandro Bucci, Roxana L Minuz, David Alexander Groneberg, Tony Nolan, Philippos-Aris Papathanos, Andrea Crisanti, Ruth Müller

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Article in The Journal of applied ecology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.

Paola PollegioniPolo d'Innovazione di Genomica Genetica e Biologia Società Consortile R.L. Terni Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6388-1931
Ace R NorthDepartment of Zoology University of Oxford Oxford UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4253-396X
Tania PersampieriPolo d'Innovazione di Genomica Genetica e Biologia Società Consortile R.L. Terni Italy.
Alessandro BucciPolo d'Innovazione di Genomica Genetica e Biologia Società Consortile R.L. Terni Italy.
Roxana L MinuzPolo d'Innovazione di Genomica Genetica e Biologia Società Consortile R.L. Terni Italy.
David Alexander GronebergInstitute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main Germany.
Tony NolanDepartment of Life Sciences Imperial College London London UK.
Philippos-Aris PapathanosDepartment of Experimental Medicine University of Perugia Perugia Italy.
Andrea CrisantiDepartment of Life Sciences Imperial College London London UK.
Ruth MüllerPolo d'Innovazione di Genomica Genetica e Biologia Società Consortile R.L. Terni Italy.
Polo d’Innovazione di Genomica · ITGoethe University Frankfurt · DEHebrew University of Jerusalem · ILImperial College London · GBLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine · GBUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes and their subsequent field release offers innovative and cost-effective approaches to reduce mosquito-borne diseases, such as malaria. A sex-distorting autosomal transgene has been developed recently in G3 mosquitoes, a laboratory strain of the malaria vector

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Ag(PMB)1anophelesdynamicsgenetically modifiedmalariamosquitopopulationstransgene

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PMID33149368
PMCPMC7594489
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