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If CRISPR can be used to eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes, then maybe it will help to eradicate ticks
by Dowwie 9y ago
If CRISPR can be used to eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes, then maybe it will help to eradicate ticks
- bequanna 9y agoAssuming we could do this, what would be the downside to eradicating all ticks?
- abledon 9y agoRead on my friend : https://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/would-eradicating-deer-ticks-hurt-the-ecosystem.html?referer=https://www.google.ca/ https://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/would-eradicat... “ Diseases like these weed out sick or infirm individuals in the host population” “Taken with other factors, like predation, “it might keep host populations within the carrying capacity of the land,” he said, possibly by reducing overgrazing and other forms of destruction to vegetation.”