Evaluating the potential of the sterile insect technique for malaria control: relative fitness and mating compatibility between laboratory colonized and a wild population of Anopheles arabiensis from the Kruger National Park, South Africa

BACKGROUND: The successful suppression of a target insect population using the sterile insect technique (SIT) partly depends on the premise that the laboratory insects used for mass rearing are genetically compatible with the target population, that the mating competitiveness of laboratory reared ma...

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Autores principales: Munhenga, Givemore, Brooke, Basil D, Chirwa, Tobias F, Hunt, Richard H, Coetzee, Maureen, Govender, Danny, Koekemoer, Lizette L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3216276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22041133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-4-208

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