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Releasing artificially sterilized singe-sex pests at scale is pretty effective. [0] Tl;dr: Some species only mate once in individuals' lifetimes. Consequently,
by ethbr1 2y ago
Releasing artificially sterilized singe-sex pests at scale is pretty effective. [0]
Tl;dr: Some species only mate once in individuals' lifetimes. Consequently, if that mating is with a sterile partner, no offspring will be produced. Thus severely limiting the size of the next generation.
[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2946175/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2946175/
- praptak 2y agoRelated paper on automating the process: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340467372_Efficient_production_of_male_Wolbachia-infected_Aedes_aegypti_mosquitoes_enables_large-scale_suppression_of_wild_populations https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340467372_Efficient...