
Keywords: Florida Keys
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Setting the world’s deadliest animal to self-destructA. Ossola, QUARTZ, 2022.![]() The mosquitoes are coming - and the, hopefully, they're going. This wee, British biotech company Oxitec plans to kick off a months-long experiment in which it will release billions of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in California and Florida. But these aren't just any mosquitoes - ... Keywords: Aedes, aegypti, autocidal, california, Florida Keys, genetic biocontrol, Oxitec, SIT, sterile insect technique |

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