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Nix alone is sufficient to convert female Aedes aegypti into fertile males and myo-sex is needed for male flight

Aryan, Azadeh; Anderson, Michelle A.E.; Biedler, James K.; Qi, Yumin; Overcash, Justin M.; Naumenko, Anastasia N.; Sharakhova, Maria V.; Mao, Chunhong; Adelman, Zach N.; Tu, Zhijian Jake (NAS, 2020-06-12)

A dominant male-determining locus (M-locus) establishes the male sex (M/m) in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Nix, a gene in the M-locus, was shown to be a male-determining factor (M factor) as somatic knockout ...