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TWiEVO 9: How to crash your gene drive

  • July 5, 2016
  • Tagged as: CRISPR, gene drive, homing endonuclease gene, lethality, population control, segregation distortion, selfish gene
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Nels and Vincent speak with Jim Bull about the results of genetic models which suggest that the evolution of inbreeding in response to lethal gene drive might make population control difficult to achieve.

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