A rapid quality control test to foster the development of genetic control in mosquitoes.

ABSTRACT: Vector-borne diseases are responsible for more than one million deaths per year. Alternative methods of mosquito control to insecticides such as genetic control techniques are thus urgently needed. In genetic techniques involving the release of sterile insects, it is critical to release insects of high quality. Sterile males must be able to disperse, survive and compete with wild males in order to inseminate wild females. There is currently no standardized, fast-processing method to assess mosquito male quality. Since male competitiveness is linked to their ability to fly, we developed a flight test device that aimed to measure the quality of sterile male mosquitoes via their capacity to escape a series of flight tubes within two hours and compared it to two other reference methods (surviv

SUBMITTER: Culbert NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6212531 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature