Serafima Davydova

The paper develops a split-CRISPR/Cas9 system for sex conversion in Mediterranean fruit flies to improve population control strategies.

This paper demonstrates the feasibility of using CRISPR-Cas9 gene drives in the medfly to achieve sex conversion and female sterility, offering a strategy for pest population suppression.

This paper establishes a genetic sexing system for the fruit fly Ceratitis capitata using a sex-specific fluorescent marker, enabling accurate male-female separation without antibiotics or temperature dependence.