Marker-assisted mapping enables effective forward genetic analysis in the arboviral vector Aedes aegypti, a species with vast recombination deserts
Chujia Chen, Austin Compton, Katerina Nikolouli, Aihua Wang, Azadeh Aryan, Atashi Sharma, Yumin Qi, Camden Dellinger, Melanie Hempel, Mark Potters, Antonios A. Augustinos, David W. Severson, Kostas Bourtzis, Zhijian Jake Tu
This paper develops a marker-assisted mapping strategy to enable forward genetic analysis in Aedes aegypti, identifying a causal gene for a sex-linked mutation and demonstrating its utility for genetic sexing and resistance gene mapping.
Genetics · Sep 9, 2022Peer-reviewedGenetics