It'll never fly

• Autores: Jamais Cascio
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3090, 2016, págs. 18-19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Cascio comments on the trial release of sterile males of the Aedes aegypti mosquito--the primary carrier of Zika--on Key Haven. Known as the sterile insect technique, this is a proven way to stem outbreaks of disease. Females that mate with these males produce no offspring. But making male mosquitoes sterile by exposing them to gamma radiation--the usual method--is tricky. They tend to be more vulnerable to its effects than other insects, becoming sterile but so weakened they can't successfully compete for mates