Modelling pulsed releases for sterile insect techniques: fitness costs of sterile and transgenic males and the effects on mosquito dynamics

Abstract excerpt

1. The development of transgenic technologies, coupled with sterile insect techniques (SIT), is being explored in relation to new approaches for the biological control of insect pests. Recent studies have shown that there are often fitness costs associated with transgenic insect strains, but the impact of these costs on their potential use in pest control is poorly understood. 2. In this paper, we explore the impa...

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• Genotype
• Infertility, Male
• Insect behavior and control techniques
• Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
• Insecta
• Models, Theoretical
• Mosquito-borne diseases and control
• Reproduction

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Literature Corpus work

98822cce-649a-5dd6-92f7-4235549d4b11

DOI

10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01880.x