Wednesday, 12 July 2023

New Study Improves Sterile Insect Technique for Mosquitoes

Overhead view looking into a cylindrical container with thousands of newly emerged mosquitoes.

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Researchers in Florida find that male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes live longer when irradiated as adults rather than pupae, an important advance in protocols for deploying the sterile insect technique to manage wild populations of disease-transmitting mosquitoes.

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