Elimination of a closed population of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, through releases of self-limiting male mosquitoes.

• Main Authors: Prabhakargouda B Patil (Author), Shaibal Kumar Dasgupta (Author), Kevin Gorman (Author), Angela Pickl-Herk (Author), Mirel Puinean (Author), Andrew McKemey (Author), Bharat Char (Author), Usha B Zehr (Author), Shirish R Barwale (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Establishment of novel mosquito control technologies such as the use of genetically engineered insects typically involves phased testing to generate robust data-sets that support its safe and effective use as a vector control tool. In this study, we demonstrate the ability of the transgenic self-lim...