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Introduction of a male-harming mitochondrial haplotype via 'Trojan Females' achieves population suppression in fruit flies. [PDF]
Elife, 2017 Pests are a global threat to biodiversity, ecosystem function, and human health. Pest control approaches are thus numerous, but their implementation costly, damaging to non-target species, and ineffective at low population densities.
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Combined sterile insect technique and incompatible insect technique: sex separation and quality of sterile Aedes aegypti male mosquitoes released in a pilot population suppression trial in Thailand. [PDF]
Parasit Vectors, 2018 The sterile insect technique (SIT), which is based on irradiation-induced sterility, and incompatible insect technique (IIT), which is based on Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility (a kind of male sterility), have been used as alternative ...
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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
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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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Fly disturbance suppresses aphid population growth [PDF]
Ecological Entomology, 2020 1. The presence of predators is known to suppress prey populations not only by consumptive but also by non‐consumptive effects, as it stresses the prey inducing costly changes to behaviour and physiology. However, there is recent evidence that disturbance from non‐predacious, non‐competing commensals can also negatively affect herbivore performance.
Kim Jensen, Søren Toft
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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