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@article{Valerio:2016:10.3390/insects7040047,
author = {Valerio, L and North, A and Collins, CM and Mumford, JD and Facchinelli, L and Spaccapelo, R and Benedict, MQ},
doi = {10.3390/insects7040047},
journal = {Insects},
title = {Comparison of Model Predictions and Laboratory Observations of Transgene Frequencies in Continuously-Breeding Mosquito Populations.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects7040047},
volume = {7},
year = {2016}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - The persistence of transgenes in the environment is a consideration in risk assessments of transgenic organisms. Combining mathematical models that predict the frequency of transgenes and experimental demonstrations can validate the model predictions, or can detect significant biological deviations that were neither apparent nor included as model parameters. In order to assess the correlation between predictions and observations, models were constructed to estimate the frequency of a transgene causing male sexual sterility in simulated populations of a malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae that were seeded with transgenic females at various proportions. Concurrently, overlapping-generation laboratory populations similar to those being modeled were initialized with various starting transgene proportions, and the subsequent proportions of transgenic individuals in populations were determined weekly until the transgene disappeared. The specific transgene being tested contained a homing endonuclease gene expressed in testes, I-PpoI, that cleaves the ribosomal DNA and results in complete male sexual sterility with no effect on female fertility. The transgene was observed to disappear more rapidly than the model predicted in all cases. The period before ovipositions that contained no transgenic progeny ranged from as little as three weeks after cage initiation to as long as 11 weeks.
AU - Valerio,L
AU - North,A
AU - Collins,CM
AU - Mumford,JD
AU - Facchinelli,L
AU - Spaccapelo,R
AU - Benedict,MQ
DO - 10.3390/insects7040047
PY - 2016///
SN - 2075-4450
TI - Comparison of Model Predictions and Laboratory Observations of Transgene Frequencies in Continuously-Breeding Mosquito Populations.
T2 - Insects
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects7040047
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/40774
VL - 7
ER -
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