Silencing the buzz: a new approach to population suppression of mosquitoes by feeding larvae double-stranded RNAs

BACKGROUND: Mosquito-borne diseases threaten over half the world’s human population, making the need for environmentally-safe mosquito population control tools critical. The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a biological control method that can reduce pest insect populations by releasing a large num...

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Autores principales: Whyard, Steve, Erdelyan, Cassidy NG, Partridge, Alison L, Singh, Aditi D, Beebe, Nigel W, Capina, Rupert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25880645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0716-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25880645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0716-6

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