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SUBMITTER: Hapairai LK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5643370 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hapairai Limb K LK Mysore Keshava K Chen Yingying Y Harper Elizabeth I EI Scheel Max P MP Lesnik Alexandra M AM Sun Longhua L Severson David W DW Wei Na N Duman-Scheel Molly M
Scientific reports 20171016 1
New mosquito control strategies are vitally needed to address established arthropod-borne infectious diseases such as dengue and yellow fever and emerging diseases such as Zika and chikungunya, all of which are transmitted by the disease vector mosquito Aedes aegypti. In this investigation, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast) was engineered to produce short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) corresponding to the Aedes aegypti orthologs of fasciculation and elongation protein zeta 2 (fez2) and leukocyte ...[more]