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Genetic variation of male reproductive success in a laboratory population of Anopheles gambiae.
Malaria journal - 30 Jul 2007
Voordouw Maarten J, Koella Jacob C
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BACKGROUND: For Anopheline mosquitoes, the vectors of human malaria, genetic variation in male reproductive success can have important consequences for any control strategy based on the release of transgenic or sterile males. METHODS: A quantitative genetics approach was used to test whether there was a genetic component to variation in male reproductive success in a laboratory population of Anopheles gambiae....
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