The Y chromosome gene draupnir reveals constraints on engineering Y-linked sex-ratio distorters in malaria mosquitoes
Rocco D'Amato, Elad Shmuel Yonah, Alessia Cagnetti…·Philippos Aris Papathanos
The paper identifies the Y-linked gene draupnir in Anopheles gambiae, showing it escapes transcriptional silencing during spermatogenesis and is necessary for Y-chromosome-based sex-ratio distortion.