Nucleases as a barrier to gene silencing in the cotton boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis

Rayssa Almeida Garcia; Leonardo Lima Pepino Macedo; Danila Cabral do Nascimento; François-Xavier Gillet; Clidia Eduarda Moreira-Pinto; Muhammad Faheem; Angelina Maria Moreschi Basso; Maria Cristina Mattar Silva; Maria Fatima Grossi-de-Sa

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189600

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Nucleases as a barrier to gene silencing in the cotton boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis

Rayssa Almeida Garcia,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Brasilia Federal University (UnB), Brasília - CEP, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil, Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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Leonardo Lima Pepino Macedo,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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Danila Cabral do Nascimento,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Catholic University of Brasília, CEP, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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François-Xavier Gillet,

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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Clidia Eduarda Moreira-Pinto,

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Brasilia Federal University (UnB), Brasília - CEP, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil, Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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Muhammad Faheem,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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Angelina Maria Moreschi Basso,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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Maria Cristina Mattar Silva,

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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Maria Fatima Grossi-de-Sa

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: fatima.grossi@embrapa.br

Affiliations Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil, Catholic University of Brasília, CEP, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8184-9599

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Nucleases as a barrier to gene silencing in the cotton boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis

Rayssa Almeida Garcia,
Leonardo Lima Pepino Macedo,
Danila Cabral do Nascimento,
François-Xavier Gillet,
Clidia Eduarda Moreira-Pinto,
Muhammad Faheem,
Angelina Maria Moreschi Basso,
Maria Cristina Mattar Silva,
Maria Fatima Grossi-de-Sa

Published: December 20, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189600

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