MGSurvE: A framework to optimize trap placement for genetic surveillance of mosquito population.

ABSTRACT: Genetic surveillance of mosquito populations is becoming increasingly relevant as genetics-based mosquito control strategies advance from laboratory to field testing. Especially applicable are mosquito gene drive projects, the potential scale of which leads monitoring to be a significant cost driver. For these projects, monitoring will be required to detect unintended spread of gene drive mosquitoes beyond field sites, and the emergence of alternative alleles, such as drive-resistant alleles or non-functional effector genes, within intervention sites. This entails the need to distribute mosquito traps efficiently such that an allele of interest is detected as quickly as possible - ideally when remediation is still viable. Additionally, insecticide-based tools such as bednets are compromise

SUBMITTER: Sanchez C HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10327167 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature