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Successful suppression of mosquitoes using sterile males in China

The results of this pilot trial were published in the current issue of Nature and show that combining incompatible and sterile insect techniques (IIT/SIT) successfully enable near elimination ... ... read more

Incompatible and sterile insect techniques combined eliminate mosquitoes

Dyck, V. A., Hendrichs, J. & Robinson, A. S. Sterile Insect Technique: Principles and Practice in Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management (Springer Netherlands, 2005). 2. Dame, D. A., Curtis, C. F., ... read more

The Most Influential Parasite in History

By 1951, malaria had been eliminated from the U.S. According to Arguin, the elimination was the result of a number ... as much as 40 percent of the population carries at least one HbS gene. A ... read more

Kill All the Mosquitoes?!

Their approach, called “sterile insect technique,” involved breeding and hatching millions of flies, sterilizing the males ... suppression of the wild population” in five studies that covered ... read more

Bulletin of Entomological Research

O'Donnell, S. Baudier, K. Fiocca, K. and Marenda, D. R. 2018. Erythritol ingestion impairs adult reproduction and causes larval mortality in Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies (Diptera: Drosophilidae ... read more

Biopesticides improve efficiency of the sterile insect technique for controlling mosquito-driven dengue epidemics

above which a population density of zero is the only stable equilibrium. Boosting with pyriproxifen generates large reductions in the elimination threshold, the sub-threshold stable equilibrium, the ... read more