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Eliminating Mosquitoes with Precision Guided Sterile Males
2021-03-06
Abstract excerpt
The mosquito Aedes aegypti is the principal vector for arboviruses including dengue/yellow fever, chikungunya, and zika, infecting hundreds of millions of people annually. Unfortunately, traditional control methodologies are insufficient, so innovative control methods are needed. To complement existing measures, here we develop a molecular genetic control system termed precision guided sterile insect technique (p...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 33815f8e-1c57-5b08-ac04-c557b6b00150
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.03.05.434167