Nix alone is sufficient to convert female Aedes aegypti into fertile males and myo-sex is needed for male flight.
Aryan A, Anderson MAE, Biedler JK, Qi Y, Overcash JM, Naumenko AN, Sharakhova MV, Mao C, Adelman ZN, Tu Z.
Aryan A, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jul 28;117(30):17702-17709. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2001132117. Epub 2020 Jul 13.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020.
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A dominant male-determining locus (M-locus) establishes the male sex (M/m) in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegyptiNix, a gene in the M-locus, was shown to be a male-determining factor (M factor) as somatic knockout of Nix led to feminized ma …
A dominant male-determining locus (M-locus) establishes the male sex (M/m) in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegyptiN …