supported by funding from NIH awards(R01AI151004,RO1AI148300,RO1AI175152)awarded to O.S.A.Figures were created using Prism9 for Windows(GraphPad Software,San Diego,USA)and www.BioRe nder.com.
Background Genetic biocontrol interventions targeting mosquito-borne diseases require the release of male mosquitoes exclusively,as only females consume blood and transmit pathogens.Releasing only males eliminates the...
supported by grants from National Key R&D Program of China (2019YFA0802400);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31970943 and 31700905);the Jiangsu Innovation and Entrepreneurship Team Program
The highly conserved doublesex(dsx) and doublesex/mab-3 related(Dmrt) genes control sexually dimorphic traits across animals. The dsx gene encodes sex-specific transcription factors, Dsx^(M) in males and Dsx^(F) in fe...
supported by grants from National Key R&D Program of China(2019YFA0802400);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31970943 and 31700905);the Jiangsu Innovation and Entrepreneurship Team Program。
Gender differences in behavior are prevalent among animal kingdoms. The causal links among a particular gene, neural circuitry, and gendered behaviors have long been of particular interest in neuroscience. The fruit f...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81672054,81871688,and 31830087);the National Institutes of Health,USA(All36850);the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2017A030313120).
Sexual development in insects is regulated by a complicated hierarchical cascade of sex determination.The primary signals are diverse,whereas the central nexus doublesex(dsx)gene is relatively conserved within the pat...