Fig. 35.

Pathway 33 Animal health: Potentially decreased livestock defence response to pathogen from altered levels of endogenous RNA or protein in saliva of dsxF^CRISPRh transgenics could lead to increased disease in livestock. Mosquito RNA injected from its saliva during biting could affect vector-host-parasite interactions [142–144]. The net effect of a population suppression gene drive would ultimately reduce this specific harm by reducing the density of the target species of mosquitoes, including transgenic ones