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Cytoplasmic Incompatibility as a Means of Controlling Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus Mosquito in the Islands of the South-Western Indian Ocean

The use of the bacterium Wolbachia is an attractive alternative method to control vector populations. In mosquitoes, as in members of the Culex pipiens complex, Wolbachia induces a form of embryonic lethality called cytoplasmic incompatibility, a sperm-egg incompatibility occurring when infected mal...

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Autores principales: Atyame, Célestine M., Pasteur, Nicole, Dumas, Emilie, Tortosa, Pablo, Tantely, Michaël Luciano, Pocquet, Nicolas, Licciardi, Séverine, Bheecarry, Ambicadutt, Zumbo, Betty, Weill, Mylène, Duron, Olivier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3243720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22206033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001440