Behavior of homing endonuclease gene drives targeting genes required for viability or female fertility with multiplexed guide RNAs [Genetics]

A gene drive method of particular interest for population suppression utilizes homing endonuclease genes (HEGs), wherein a site-specific, nuclease-encoding cassette is copied, in the germline, into a target gene whose loss of function results in loss of viability or fertility in homozygous, but not heterozygous, progeny. Earlier work in Drosophila...

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