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Driven to extinction? The ethics of eradicating mosquitoes with gene-drive technologies
- Correspondence to Dr Jonathan Pugh, Philosophy/Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; jonathan.pugh{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk
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Driven to extinction? The ethics of eradicating mosquitoes with gene-drive technologies
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- Received February 16, 2016
- Revised March 29, 2016
- Accepted April 7, 2016
- First published April 26, 2016.
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August 24, 2016
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