Boosting the sterile insect technique to control mosquitoes

Mosquitoes are vectors of major diseases. Auto-dissem-ination recently proved very efficient to control Aedes species, using adult females contaminated with dissem-ination stations of juvenile hormone to treat breeding habitats, but cannot be used at large scales. Here we propose to combine it to the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) to create a new control concept, named 'boosted SIT' that might enable the area-wide eradication of mosquitoes and many other vectors and insect pests.

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Main Authors:	Bouyer, Jérémy, Lefrançois, Thierry
Format:	article biblioteca
Language:	eng
Subjects:	L72 - Organismes nuisibles des animaux, L73 - Maladies des animaux, Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, méthode de lutte, stérilisation, vecteur de maladie, virus, reproduction sexuée, dynamique des populations, contrôle de maladies, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_30482, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_30483, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5728, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7401, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8164, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8262, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_26876, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6111, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2327, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6970,
Online Access:	http://agritrop.cirad.fr/573526/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/573526/1/document_573526.pdf
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