Pest demography critically determines the viability of synthetic gene drives for population control

DOI10.1016/J.MBS.2018.09.005MaRDI QIDQ669085zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kym E. Wilkins, Thomas A. A. Prowse, Phillip Cassey, Paul Q. Thomas, J. V. Ross

Publication date 20 March 2019

Published in Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2018.09.005

zbMATH Keywords

invasive speciespest eradicationsynthetic biologymating systemCRISPRgene drivepopulation modelling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Ecology (92D40)

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