Mosquito Control Strategies (IMAGE)

Vanderbilt University

Mosquito Control Strategies

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There are two basic strategies for using Wolbachia's incompatibility genes for combatting mosquito-borne diseases: (left) Use genetic engineering to insert the genes directly into the mosquito genome; (right) increase the number of incompatibility genes in parasite which allows it to spread more rapidly through local mosquito population, replacing the mosquitoes spreading human viral diseases like dengue and Zika with infected mosquitoes that do not transmit these diseases.

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Seth Bordenstein, Vanderbilt University

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