Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

A CRISPR endonuclease gene drive reveals distinct mechanisms of inheritance bias

  • Sebald A. N. Verkuijl,
  • Estela Gonzalez,
  • Ming Li,
  • Joshua X. D. Ang,
  • Nikolay P. Kandul,
  • Michelle A. E. Anderson,
  • Omar S. Akbari,
  • Michael B. Bonsall,
  • Luke Alphey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34739-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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CRISPR/Cas gene drives can bias transgene inheritance through different mechanisms. Here the authors use gene linkage to show that in males inheritance bias of wGDe did not occur by homing, rather through increased propagation of the donor drive element.