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ArticleNature communications2024

The potential of gene drives in malaria vector species to control malaria in African environments.

Penelope A Hancock, Ace North, Adrian W Leach, Peter Winskill, Azra C Ghani, H Charles J Godfray, Austin Burt, John D Mumford

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Penelope A Hancock *MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK. p.hancock@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-5531-1082
Ace North *Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4253-396X
Adrian W LeachCentre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8781-2874
Peter WinskillMRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3001-4959
Azra C GhaniMRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0007-4910
H Charles J GodfrayDepartment of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8859-7232
Austin BurtDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5146-9640
John D MumfordCentre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8964-1784

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene drives are a promising means of malaria control with the potential to cause sustained reductions in transmission. In real environments, however, their impacts will depend on local ecological and epidemiological factors. We develop a data-driven model to investigate the impacts of gene drives that causes vector population suppression. We simulate gene drive releases in sixteen ~ 12,000 km

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AnophelesGene Drive TechnologyMalariaMosquito ControlMosquito VectorsAfrica, WesternAnimalsHumans

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PMID39419965
PMCPMC11486997

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