Mosquitoes bring global health problems by transmitting parasites and viruses such as
malaria and dengue. Unfortunately, current insecticide-based control strategies are only …

Mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue and malaria, pose a significant burden to global
health. Current control strategies with insecticides are only moderately effective. Scalable …

Gene drive systems could be a viable strategy to prevent pathogen transmission or suppress
vector populations by propagating drive alleles with super-Mendelian inheritance. CRISPR …

Employing the clear, student-friendly style that made previous editions so popular, Insect
Physiology and Biochemistry, Fourth Edition presents an engaging and authoritative guide …

Population-scale genome modification can alter the composition or fate of wild populations.
Synthetic gene drives provide one set of tools, but their use is complicated by scientific …

Genetic control strategies such as the sterile insect technique have successfully fought
insect pests worldwide. The CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

The olfactory transduction system of insects is involved in multiple behavioral processes
such as foraging, mating, and egg-laying behavior. In the insect olfactory receptor neurons …

CRISPR homing gene drives can suppress pest populations by targeting female fertility
genes, converting wild-type alleles into drive alleles in the germline of drive heterozygotes …

Gene drives are engineered alleles that can bias inheritance in their favor, allowing them to
spread throughout a population. They could potentially be used to modify or suppress pest …

Rapid evolutionary processes can produce drastically different outcomes when studied in
panmictic population models vs. spatial models. One such process is gene drive, which …