Engineered action at a distance: Blood-meal-inducible paralysis in Aedes aegypti.

• Main Authors: Roya Elaine Haghighat-Khah (Author), Tim Harvey-Samuel (Author), Sanjay Basu (Author), Oliver StJohn (Author), Sarah Scaife (Author), Sebald Verkuijl (Author), Erica Lovett (Author), Luke Alphey (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Population suppression through mass-release of Aedes aegypti males carrying dominant-lethal transgenes has been demonstrated in the field. Where population dynamics show negative density-dependence, suppression can be enhanced if lethality occurs after the density-dependent (i.e. larval)...