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TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 9, Pages 791-804Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2022.05.012
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- National Institutes of Health [AI157491, AI154871, AI123338, AI121284]
- Virginia Experimental Station, Texas A&M Agrilife Research (Insect Vectored Diseases Grant Program)
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch project [1018401]
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This article reviews the recent progress in understanding sex determination and sex chromosomes in mosquitoes and discusses new methods for achieving sex separation and sex ratio distortion to control mosquito-borne infectious diseases. Several critical areas for future research are suggested.
Mosquitoes are vectors for a number of infectious diseases. Only females feed on blood to provision for their embryos and, in doing so, transmit pathogens to the associated vertebrate hosts. Therefore, sex is an important phenotype in the context of genetic control programs, both for sex separation in the rearing facilities to avoid releasing biting females and for ways to distort the sex ratio towards nonbiting males. We review recent progress in the fundamental knowledge of sex determination and sex chromosomes in mosquitoes and discuss new methods to achieve sex separation and sex ratio distortion to help control mosquito-borne infectious diseases. We conclude by suggesting a few critical areas for future research.
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