Eradicating Mosquitoes using Translocations: a First Field Experiment

THEORETICAL considerations have led to the assumption that chromosomal translocations with ensuing semisterility could be used to control pests 1–3 . Inversions could have the same effect in animals and plants in which crossing over occurs in both sexes 4 . Many translocations of different type and...

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Published in:Nature (London) 1972-04, Vol.236 (5348), p.456-457
Main Authors: LAVEN, H, COUSSERANS, J, GUILLE, G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Chromosome Aberrations
Culex
Humanities and Social Sciences
letter
Male
Mosquito Control
multidisciplinary
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Sex Chromosomes
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Summary:THEORETICAL considerations have led to the assumption that chromosomal translocations with ensuing semisterility could be used to control pests 1–3 . Inversions could have the same effect in animals and plants in which crossing over occurs in both sexes 4 . Many translocations of different type and with various degrees of sterility have been produced in the mosquito Culex pipiens 5–8 . 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 population 9 .
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/236456a0