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
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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
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author Oliva, Clelia F.
Jacquet, Maxime
Gilles, Jeremie
Lemperiere, Guy
Maquart, Pierre-Olivier
Quilici, Serge
Schooneman, François
Vreysen, Marc J. B.
Boyer, Sebastien
author_facet Oliva, Clelia F.
Jacquet, Maxime
Gilles, Jeremie
Lemperiere, Guy
Maquart, Pierre-Olivier
Quilici, Serge
Schooneman, François
Vreysen, Marc J. B.
Boyer, Sebastien
author_sort Oliva, Clelia F.
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description 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 fulfil their intended function by reducing wild mosquito populations in natura. We studied the effect of irradiation on sexual maturation and mating success of males, and compared the sexual competitiveness of sterile versus wild males in the presence of wild females in semi-field conditions. For all untreated or sterile males, sexual maturation was completed within 13 to 20 h post-emergence and some males were able to inseminate females when 15 h old. In the absence of competition, untreated and sterile males were able to inseminate the same number of virgin females during 48 h, in small laboratory cages: an average of 93% of females was inseminated no matter the treatment, the age of males, and the sex ratio. Daily mating success of single sterile males followed the same pattern as for untreated ones, although they inseminated significantly fewer females after the ninth day. The competitiveness index of sterile males in semi-field conditions was only 0.14 when they were released at 1-day old, but improved to 0.53 when the release occurred after a 5-day period in laboratory conditions. In SIT simulation experiments, a 5∶1 sterile to wild male ratio allowed a two-fold reduction of the wild population’s fertility. This suggests that sterile males could be sufficiently competitive to mate with wild females within the framework of an SIT component as part of an AW-IPM programme for suppressing a wild population of Ae. albopictus in Reunion Island. It will be of interest to minimise the pre-release period in controlled conditions to ensure a good competitiveness without increasing mass rearing costs.
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spelling pubmed-35040102012-11-26 The Sterile Insect Technique for Controlling Populations of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) on Reunion Island: Mating Vigour of Sterilized Males Oliva, Clelia F. Jacquet, Maxime Gilles, Jeremie Lemperiere, Guy Maquart, Pierre-Olivier Quilici, Serge Schooneman, François Vreysen, Marc J. B. Boyer, Sebastien PLoS One Research Article 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 fulfil their intended function by reducing wild mosquito populations in natura. We studied the effect of irradiation on sexual maturation and mating success of males, and compared the sexual competitiveness of sterile versus wild males in the presence of wild females in semi-field conditions. For all untreated or sterile males, sexual maturation was completed within 13 to 20 h post-emergence and some males were able to inseminate females when 15 h old. In the absence of competition, untreated and sterile males were able to inseminate the same number of virgin females during 48 h, in small laboratory cages: an average of 93% of females was inseminated no matter the treatment, the age of males, and the sex ratio. Daily mating success of single sterile males followed the same pattern as for untreated ones, although they inseminated significantly fewer females after the ninth day. The competitiveness index of sterile males in semi-field conditions was only 0.14 when they were released at 1-day old, but improved to 0.53 when the release occurred after a 5-day period in laboratory conditions. In SIT simulation experiments, a 5∶1 sterile to wild male ratio allowed a two-fold reduction of the wild population’s fertility. This suggests that sterile males could be sufficiently competitive to mate with wild females within the framework of an SIT component as part of an AW-IPM programme for suppressing a wild population of Ae. albopictus in Reunion Island. It will be of interest to minimise the pre-release period in controlled conditions to ensure a good competitiveness without increasing mass rearing costs. Public Library of Science 2012-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3504010/ /pubmed/23185329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049414 Text en © 2012 Oliva et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Oliva, Clelia F.
Jacquet, Maxime
Gilles, Jeremie
Lemperiere, Guy
Maquart, Pierre-Olivier
Quilici, Serge
Schooneman, François
Vreysen, Marc J. B.
Boyer, Sebastien
The Sterile Insect Technique for Controlling Populations of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) on Reunion Island: Mating Vigour of Sterilized Males
title The Sterile Insect Technique for Controlling Populations of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) on Reunion Island: Mating Vigour of Sterilized Males
title_full The Sterile Insect Technique for Controlling Populations of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) on Reunion Island: Mating Vigour of Sterilized Males
title_fullStr The Sterile Insect Technique for Controlling Populations of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) on Reunion Island: Mating Vigour of Sterilized Males
title_full_unstemmed The Sterile Insect Technique for Controlling Populations of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) on Reunion Island: Mating Vigour of Sterilized Males
title_short The Sterile Insect Technique for Controlling Populations of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) on Reunion Island: Mating Vigour of Sterilized Males
title_sort sterile insect technique for controlling populations of aedes albopictus (diptera: culicidae) on reunion island: mating vigour of sterilized males
topic Research Article
url 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
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