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GENETICS
Volume 179, Issue 4, Pages 2013-2026Publisher
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.089037
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- NERC [cpb010001] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [cpb010001] Funding Source: researchfish
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Homing endonuclease genes (HEGs) encode proteins that in the heterozygous state cause double- strand breaks in the homologous chromosome at the precise position opposite the HFG. If the double-strand break is repaired using the homologous chromosome, the HEG becomes homozygous, and this represents it Powerful genetic drive mechanism that might he used as it tool managing vector or pest populations. HEGs may be used to decrease population fitness to drive down population densities (possibly causing local extinction) or, in disease vectors, to knock out a gene required for pathogen transmission. The relative advantages of HEGs thia target viability or fecundity, that are active in one sex or both, and whose target. is expressed before or after homing are explored. The conditions under which escape mutants arise are also analyzed. A different strategy is to place HEGs on the Y chromosome that cause one, or more breaks on the X chromosome and so disrupt. sex ratio. This strategy can cause severe sex-ratio biases with efficiencies that depend on the details of sperm Competition and zygote mortality. This strategy is probably less susceptible to escape mutants, especially when multiple X shredders are used.
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