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The Sterile Insect Technique for Controlling Populations of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) on Reunion Island: Mating Vigour of Sterilized Males

Reunion Island suffers from high densities of the chikungunya and dengue vector Aedes albopictus. The sterile insect technique (SIT) offers a promising strategy for mosquito-borne diseases prevention and control. For such a strategy to be effective, sterile males need to be competitive enough to ful...

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Autores principales: Oliva, Clelia F., Jacquet, Maxime, Gilles, Jeremie, Lemperiere, Guy, Maquart, Pierre-Olivier, Quilici, Serge, Schooneman, François, Vreysen, Marc J. B., Boyer, Sebastien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049414