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Nikolay P Kandul, Junru Liu, Hector M Sanchez C, Sean L Wu, John M Marshall, Omar S Akbari
Nature communications · 2019-Sep-02 · PMID 31477702 · DOI 10.1038/s41467-019-11617-8Abstract
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- N.P.K. and O.S.A. have submitted a provisional patent application on this technology. Patent information is as follows: ENDONUCLEASE SEXING AND STERILIZATION IN INSECTS Patent application under the PCT (1618008-WO-UC Ref2018-278-2.-PCT) filled on Nov 19 2018. N.P.K. and O.S.A. via the University of California Riverside “Reproducible and 100% consistent method to sex and create large number of sterile yet competitive insect males as F1 progeny of gRNA and Cas9 lines.” O.S.A. is a co-founder of a new startup company named Agragene. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.