Engineered action at a distance: Blood-meal-inducible paralysis in Aedes aegypti.
Roya Elaine Haghighat-KhahTim Harvey-SamuelSanjay BasuSebald A N VerkuijlSarah ScaifeSebald VerkuijlErica LovettLuke S AlpheyPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2019)
These results are significant in demonstrating for the first time an engineered 'action at a distance' phenotype in a non-model pest insect. The potential to dissociate temporal and spatial expression patterns of useful endogenous regulatory elements will extend to a variety of other pest insects and effectors.