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Table 4 Sex-ratio, survival, and flightless phenotypes in the F1 progeny of crosses between the effector line E-1 and driver lines engineered with either OX3545 (DAa-) or AsOX3545 (DAs-)

From: Development of a population suppression strain of the human malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles stephensi

♂ driver lines outcrossed with the ♀ effector line E-1

Larvae

Transgenic adults

 

Only one transgene

Effector and driver transgenes

Flying females

Flightless females

Flying males

Totals(% survival larvae-adult)

DAa-1

775

144

0

1

62

63 (44%)

DAa-2

1150

307

7

0

34

41 (13%)

DAa-3

4340

880

9

172

345

517 (70%)

DAa-4

600

110

3

23

29

54 (49%)

DAa-5

900

226

47

0

96

143 (63%)

DAa-6

1830

371

140

0

143

283 (76%)

DAa-7

1200

239

41

6

74

121 (51%)

DAs-17

nd

465

80

79

177

336 (72%)

DAs-18

nd

89

11

3

23

37 (41%)

DAs-19

nd

185

58

20

62

140 (75%)

DAs-20

nd

152

11

0

52

63 (41%)

DAs-21*

nd

1545

0

161

483

644 (42%)

DAs-22

nd

1483

3

397

507 (1)**

907 (61%)

DAs-24

nd

93

23

4

28

55 (59%)

DAs-25*

nd

761

0

70

193

263 (35%)

DAs-26

nd

328

15

86

112

213 (65%)

DAs-28

nd

244

19

0

73

92 (37%)

DAs-29

nd

107

33

0

33

66 (61%)

DAs-30

nd

226

15

0

14

29 (12%)

DAs-34

nd

114

8

0

0

8 (0%)

DAs-36

nd

267

21

0

46

67 (25%)

  1. *Lines with design-feature phenotypes.
  2. **Crossing Das-22 and E-1 lines generated one flightless male (indicated in parenthesis).