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MosquitoDengueFever @ asianscientist.com
| Description | : | Natural Selection
“The results show we can completely transform local populations in a few months,” Turelli said. Wolbachia is transmitted by female mosquitoes to their offspring. A pair of infected mosquitoes produce slightly fewer eggs than an uninfected couple, but when an infected male mosquito mates with an uninfected female, she produces no eggs at all. That provides a big reproductive advantage to the spread of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes, generation by generation. “It’s natural selection on steroids,” Turelli said. It turns out that Wolbachia also suppresses various other microbes living in the same mosquito – including the dengue virus. As these virus-resistant mosquitoes spread through the wild population, dengue transmission should dry up", Turelli and Hoffmann http://www.asianscientist.com/in-the-lab/wolbachia-bacteria-aedes-mosquitoes-gates-foundation-nature/ |
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