| Literature DB >> 31316207 |
Xiaoying Zheng1, Dongjing Zhang1,2, Yongjun Li1,3, Cui Yang1,3, Yu Wu1, Xiao Liang4, Yongkang Liang1,3, Xiaoling Pan4,5, Linchao Hu1, Qiang Sun1,4, Xiaohua Wang3, Yingyang Wei3, Jian Zhu3, Wei Qian3, Ziqiang Yan6, Andrew G Parker2, Jeremie R L Gilles2, Kostas Bourtzis2, Jérémy Bouyer2, Moxun Tang7, Bo Zheng8, Jianshe Yu8, Julian Liu3, Jiajia Zhuang1, Zhigang Hu6, Meichun Zhang1, Jun-Tao Gong9, Xiao-Yue Hong9, Zhoubing Zhang6, Lifeng Lin10, Qiyong Liu11, Zhiyong Hu12, Zhongdao Wu1, Luke Anthony Baton4, Ary A Hoffmann13, Zhiyong Xi14,15,16.
Abstract
The radiation-based sterile insect technique (SIT) has successfully suppressed field populations of several insect pest species, but its effect on mosquito vector control has been limited. The related incompatible insect technique (IIT)-which uses sterilization caused by the maternally inherited endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia-is a promising alternative, but can be undermined by accidental release of females infected with the same Wolbachia strain as the released males. Here we show that combining incompatible and sterile insect techniques (IIT-SIT) enables near elimination of field populations of the world's most invasive mosquito species, Aedes albopictus. Millions of factory-reared adult males with an artificial triple-Wolbachia infection were released, with prior pupal irradiation of the released mosquitoes to prevent unintentionally released triply infected females from successfully reproducing in the field. This successful field trial demonstrates the feasibility of area-wide application of combined IIT-SIT for mosquito vector control.Entities:
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Year: 2019 PMID： 31316207 DOI： 10.1038/s41586-019-1407-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nature ISSN： 0028-0836 Impact factor: 49.962