Study Shows Effectiveness of Suppressing Female Fruit Flies (IMAGE)

North Carolina State University

Study Shows Effectiveness of Suppressing Female Fruit Flies

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Florescent red proteins glow in D. suzukii fruit flies. Fruit flies at bottom left have four copies of the female lethal gene, while flies top middle have two copies of the gene. Wild flies without the gene are bottom right.

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Photos by Akihiko Yamamoto and Amarish Yadav, NC State University.

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