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SUBMITTER: Macias VM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5580807 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Macias Vanessa M VM Jimenez Alyssa J AJ Burini-Kojin Bianca B Pledger David D Jasinskiene Nijole N Phong Celine Hien CH Chu Karen K Fazekas Aniko A Martin Kelcie K Marinotti Osvaldo O James Anthony A AA
Insect biochemistry and molecular biology 20170701
Transposons are a class of selfish DNA elements that can mobilize within a genome. If mobilization is accompanied by an increase in copy number (replicative transposition), the transposon may sweep through a population until it is fixed in all of its interbreeding members. This introgression has been proposed as the basis for drive systems to move genes with desirable phenotypes into target species. One such application would be to use them to move a gene conferring resistance to malaria parasit ...[more]