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We thank J. Barrett, D. Bornholdt, W.L. Chadderton, R. Devlin, P. Eimon, K. Hayes, A. Kapuskinski, P. Koopman, K. McColl, L. McFarlane, R. Mcloughlin, S. Robert, P. Sorensen, J. Teem and the participants in the First International Symposium on Genetic Biocontrol of Fish for helpful comments on different aspects of the work; R. Gurney and X. Mu for assistance in the laboratory; L. Alphey and F. Gould for comments on the manuscript; and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority for their financial support for the project.
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Thresher, R., van de Kamp, J., Campbell, G. et al. Sex-ratio-biasing constructs for the control of invasive lower vertebrates. Nat Biotechnol 32, 424–427 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2903
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