Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Engineered reproductively isolated species drive reversible population replacement

  • Anna Buchman,
  • Isaiah Shriner,
  • Ting Yang,
  • Junru Liu,
  • Igor Antoshechkin,
  • John M. Marshall,
  • Michael W. Perry,
  • Omar S. Akbari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23531-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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There exist only a handful of methods to engineer reproductive barriers in eukaryotes. Here the authors use CRISPR to engineer multiple barriers in D. melanogaster and model their spread.