CAGE TRIALS USING AN ENDOGENOUS MEIOTIC DRIVE GENE IN THE MOSQUITO AEDES AEGYPTI TO PROMOTE POPULATION REPLACEMENT

2006 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUNG-JAE CHA ◽  
DAVID W. SEVERSON ◽  
AKIO MORI ◽  
DAVE D. CHADEE
Keyword(s):  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Meiotic Drive ◽  
Population Replacement ◽  
Drive Gene

Variation in Y chromosome meiotic drive in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae): a potential genetic approach to mosquito control

1997 ◽  
Vol 87 (6) ◽  
pp. 617-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. O. Owusu-Daaku ◽  
R. J. Wood ◽  
R. D. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Y Chromosome ◽  
Reciprocal Cross ◽  
Mosquito Control ◽  
Meiotic Drive ◽  
Genetic Approach ◽  
Single Form ◽  
Ratio Distortion ◽  
Sex Ratio Distortion

AbstractReciprocal crosses between strains of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) from different geographical areas have revealed an unexpectedly complex pattern of holandrically inherited male biased sex ratios in F2. The variation has been interpreted in terms of a web of X–Y interactions in Fl, in which the Y chromosome may or may not show meiotic drive against the X chromosome with which it is paired. The pattern of inheritance is not in agreement with a single form of Y chromosome, driving with different degrees of intensity against Xs of different sensitivity, but indicates different forms of driving Y chromosome. A rule has emerged that if Fl males from any cross give rise to a male distorted sex ratio in their progeny (F2), the males from the reciprocal cross give rise to a normal sex ratio. All eleven newly colonized strains from Ghana showed Y meiotic drive against the Xs of five strains, one of American and four of Australian origin, although one of the eleven showed a greater degree of drive than the other ten against the same sensitive strains. The variation observed is discussed in relation to previous studies on meiotic drive by the MD haplotype, and to the possible exploitation of sex ratio distortion in controlling this potentially dangerous insect.

Meiotic drive at the D(MD) locus and fertility in the mosquito, Aedes aegypti (L.)

Genetica ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. A. M. Youngson ◽  
H. M. Welch ◽  
R. J. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Meiotic Drive

scholarly journals The Hitchhiking Effect of an Autosomal Meiotic Drive Gene: TABLE 1

Genetics ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 173 (3) ◽  
pp. 1829-1832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis-Miguel Chevin ◽  
Frédéric Hospital
Keyword(s):  
Meiotic Drive ◽  
Drive Gene ◽  
Gene Table
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