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Florida to Release 750 Million GMO Mosquitoes in 2021

Seeker, Seeker, 2020.

The U.S. EPA gave the green light to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys in 2021 — here’s what we know.
Keywords: aedes-albopictus, double translocation, epidemiology, Gene drive, genetic biocontrol, insect technique, modelling, Mosquito control, Mosquito ecology, Population genetics, sterile, underdominance

Ecological effects on underdominance threshold drives for vector control

D. Khamis, C. El Mouden, K. Kura and M. B. Bonsall, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 456:1-15. 2018.

Here, ecological and epidemiological dynamics are coupled to a model of mosquito genetics to investigate theoretically the impact of different types of underdominance gene drive on disease prevalence. We model systems with two engineered alleles carried either on the same pair ...
Keywords: aedes-albopictus, double translocation, epidemiology, Gene drive, genetic biocontrol, insect technique, modelling, Mosquito control, Mosquito ecology, Population genetics, sterile, underdominance