Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Suppressing mosquito populations with precision guided sterile males

  • Ming Li,
  • Ting Yang,
  • Michelle Bui,
  • Stephanie Gamez,
  • Tyler Wise,
  • Nikolay P. Kandul,
  • Junru Liu,
  • Lenissa Alcantara,
  • Haena Lee,
  • Jyotheeswara R. Edula,
  • Robyn Raban,
  • Yinpeng Zhan,
  • Yijin Wang,
  • Nick DeBeaubien,
  • Jieyan Chen,
  • Héctor M. Sánchez C.,
  • Jared B. Bennett,
  • Igor Antoshechkin,
  • Craig Montell,
  • John M. Marshall,
  • Omar S. Akbari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25421-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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A. aegypti is the principal vector for arboviruses that impact on human health and wellbeing. Here the authors use precision guided sterile insect technique—pgSIT—to suppress or eliminate mosquito populations in multigeneration cage experiments.