Publication Date:
2000-03-31
Description:
A major modification to the sterile insect technique is described, in which transgenic insects homozygous for a dominant, repressible, female-specific lethal gene system are used. We demonstrate two methods that give the required genetic characteristics in an otherwise wild-type genetic background. The first system uses a sex-specific promoter or enhancer to drive the expression of a repressible transcription factor, which in turn controls the expression of a toxic gene product. The second system uses non-sex-specific expression of the repressible transcription factor to regulate a selectively lethal gene product. Both methods work efficiently in Drosophila melanogaster, and we expect these principles to be widely applicable to more economically important organisms.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Thomas, D D -- Donnelly, C A -- Wood, R J -- Alphey, L S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Mar 31;287(5462):2474-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Zoology, Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10741964" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Animals, Genetically Modified
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Crosses, Genetic
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DNA-Binding Proteins
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*Drosophila Proteins
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Drosophila melanogaster/*genetics
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Egg Proteins/genetics
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Enhancer Elements, Genetic
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Fat Body/metabolism
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Female
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Gene Expression Regulation
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*Genes, Dominant
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*Genes, Insect
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*Genes, Lethal
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Genes, ras
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Homozygote
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Male
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Models, Biological
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Nuclear Proteins/genetics
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*Pest Control, Biological
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Promoter Regions, Genetic
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Tetracycline/pharmacology
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Trans-Activators/genetics
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Transcription Factors/genetics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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