siRNA-Mediated Silencing of doublesex during Female Development of the Dengue Vector Mosquito Aedes aegypti.

• Egile Nagusiak: Keshava Mysore (Egilea), Longhua Sun (Egilea), Michael Tomchaney (Egilea), Gwyneth Sullivan (Egilea), Haley Adams (Egilea), Andres S Piscoya (Egilea), David W Severson (Egilea), Zainulabeuddin Syed (Egilea), Molly Duman-Scheel (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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The development of sex-specific traits, including the female-specific ability to bite humans and vector disease, is critical for vector mosquito reproduction and pathogen transmission. Doublesex (Dsx), a terminal transcription factor in the sex determination pathway, is known to regulate sex-specifi...