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Sean P Leonard1,2, J Elijah Powell1, Jiri Perutka2

  • 1Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 1, 2020
PubMed
まとめ

研究者は腸内細菌を設計して RNA 干渉 (RNAi) を誘発し,ミツバチの健康とウイルスとヴァロア・ミツバチに対する生存を向上させた. この新しいアプローチは ミツバチの機能的ゲノムと保全のための有望なツールです

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