Cytoplasmic incompatibility as a means of controlling Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus mosquito in the islands of the south-western Indian Ocean.

• Main Authors: Célestine M Atyame (Author), Nicole Pasteur (Author), Emilie Dumas (Author), Pablo Tortosa (Author), Michaël Luciano Tantely (Author), Nicolas Pocquet (Author), Séverine Licciardi (Author), Ambicadutt Bheecarry (Author), Betty Zumbo (Author), Mylène Weill (Author), Olivier Duron (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The use of the bacterium Wolbachia is an attractive alternative method to control vector populations. In mosquitoes, as in members of the Culex pipiens complex, Wolbachia induces a form of embryonic lethality called cytoplasmic incompatibility, a sperm-egg incompatibility occurring when infected mal...