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J. Cousserans

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Eradicating Mosquitoes using Translocations: a First Field Experiment

1972

THEORETICAL considerations have led to the assumption that chromosomal translocations with ensuing semisterility could be used to control pests1–3. Inversions could have the same effect in animals and plants in which crossing over occurs in both sexes4. Many translocations of different type and with various degrees of sterility have been produced in the mosquito Culex pipiens5–8. Preliminary laboratory experiments with these translocations have shown that a cage population can be diminished and finally exterminated after a few generations by the release of translocation heterozygotes into the population9.

Chromosome AberrationsMaleGeneticseducation.field_of_studyMosquito ControlSex ChromosomesMultidisciplinarybiologyEcologyCulexSterilityField experimentfungiPopulationChromosomal translocationbiology.organism_classificationChromosomal crossoverCulexMosquito controlAnimalsNatural enemieseducationNature
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Inherited semisterility for control of harmful insects. III. A first field experiment

1971

Fortlaufende Freilassung von semisterilen Mannchen in eine isolierte Freilandpopulation vonCulex pipiens fuhrte zu einer Verminderung dieser Population auf 10% der maximalen Populationsgrosse.

PharmacologyCellular and Molecular NeuroscienceField experimentBotanyMolecular MedicineCell BiologyBiologyMolecular BiologyExperientia
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