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Potential negative impacts and low effectiveness in the use of African annual killifish in the biocontrol of aquatic mosquito larvae in temporary water bodies
Commentary and discussion on a recent paper promoting the use of Nothobranchius guentheri, a small African annual fish from the Island of Zanzibar as a tool to control mosquito larvae in temporary bodies of freshwater throughout Africa is presented. Arguments on major points; (1) expected low succes...
Autores principales: | Reichard, Martin, Watters, Brian R, Wildekamp, Rudolf H, Sonnenberg, Rainer, Nagy, Béla, Polačik, Matej, Valdesalici, Stefano, Cellerino, Alessandro, Cooper, Barry J, Hengstler, Holger, Rosenstock, John, Sainthouse, Ian |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2945331/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20846414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-3-89 |
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