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Targeting Sex Determination to Suppress Mosquito Populations
eLife, 2023 Abstract Each year, hundreds of millions of people are infected with arboviruses such as dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, and Zika, which are all primarily spread by the notorious mosquito Aedes aegypti. Traditional control measures have proven insufficient, necessitating innovations.
Ming Li +14 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 As gene drive mosquito projects advance from contained laboratory testing to semi-field testing and small-scale field trials, there is a need to assess monitoring requirements to: i) assist with the effective introduction of the gene drive system at ...
Gordana Rašić +5 more
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Modeling the Impact of Migration on Mosquito Population Suppression
Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems, 2022 Abstract The field trial of mosquito population suppression in Guangzhou showed that the migration of wild mosquitoes to the target area were resistant to elimination. In this work, we formulate a delay differential equation model to assess the impact of migration on the suppression efficiency, and identify that the migration of wild mosquitoes
Huang, Mugen, Yu, Jianshe
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Population-level effects of suppressing fever [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014 Fever is commonly attenuated with antipyretic medication as a means to treat unpleasant symptoms of infectious diseases. We highlight a potentially important negative effect of fever suppression that becomes evident at the population level: reducing fever may increase transmission of associated infections.
David J D, Earn +2 more
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The sterile insect technique is protected from evolution of mate discrimination [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background The sterile insect technique (SIT) has been used to suppress and even extinguish pest insect populations. The method involves releasing artificially reared insects (usually males) that, when mating with wild individuals, sterilize the broods ...
James J. Bull, Richard Gomulkiewicz
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Achieving Sea Lamprey Control in Lake Champlain
Fishes, 2021 The control of parasitic sea lamprey in Lake Champlain has been a necessary component of its fishery restoration and recovery goals for 30 years. While adopting the approach of the larger and established sea lamprey control program of the Laurentian ...
Bradley Young, BJ Allaire, Stephen Smith
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Suppressing mosquito populations with precision guided sterile males [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2021 Abstract The mosquito Aedes aegypti is the principal vector for arboviruses including dengue/yellow fever, chikungunya, and Zika virus, infecting hundreds of millions of people annually. Unfortunately, traditional control methodologies are insufficient, so innovative control
Ming Li +20 more
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Gene drive escape from resistance depends on mechanism and ecology
Evolutionary Applications, 2022 Gene drives can potentially be used to suppress pest populations, and the advent of CRISPR technology has made it feasible to engineer them in many species, especially insects.
Forest Cook +2 more
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Next-generation tools to control biting midge populations and reduce pathogen transmission
Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Biting midges of the genus Culicoides transmit disease-causing agents resulting in a significant economic impact on livestock industries in many parts of the world.
Phillip Shults +3 more
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Haematologica, 2022 Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGvHD) is a major cause of morbidity after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). In large patient populations, we have shown a CD56bright natural killer (NK) population to strongly associate with a lack of ...
Madeline Lauener +10 more
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