Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7613, Raleigh, NC 27695-7613, USA.
Curr Biol. 2021 Mar 8;31(5):R260-R263. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.078.
A new study finds that the femaleless gene is essential for sexual development and repression of X-chromosome dosage compensation in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. This could provide the basis for a new genetic approach to control this pest.
一项新的研究发现,雌性不育基因对于疟蚊 Anopheles gambiae 的性发育和 X 染色体剂量补偿的抑制是必不可少的。这可能为控制这种害虫的新遗传方法提供基础。