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They're only 'good' because they're sterile, and capable of sabotaging mosquito reproduction. If they weren't sterile and "only produce good male mosquitos agai
by bagels 10y ago
They're only 'good' because they're sterile, and capable of sabotaging mosquito reproduction. If they weren't sterile and "only produce good male mosquitos again", the population would not decrease, they would just be releasing regular male mosquitos.
- hubert123 10y agoright, which means that eventually the entire population would be male and then die off
- sp332 10y agoI was about to say that's impossible because meiosis produces equal number of "male" and "female" cells but... someone actually did it. https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2014/06/eradicating-female-malaria-bearing-mosquitos.html https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2014/06/eradic...