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US 8,263,397 B2Granted
Female specific insect expression system
AssigneeBoard of Trustees of the University of Arkansas
InventorHelen Benes
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Abstract
The present invention provides an insect expression system that may be used to provide biological control of pest insects and control transmission of infectious diseases transmitted to the human population by insects.
Claims10
An expression system comprising:
- (a) an enhancer sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO:
- 1;
- (b) a heterologous promoter operably linked to the enhancer element of (a);
- (c) one or more heterologous nucleic acid sequences for expression in a mosquito operably linked to the promoter in (b);
- wherein, the enhancer element directs female-specific expression of the heterologous nucleic acid sequence at a level greater than six fold higher in female than in male mosquitoes.
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