Release the sterile males: a new direction for mosquito population control technologies

释放不育雄性：蚊子种群控制技术的新方向

• 批准号: nhmrc : GNT1082127
• 负责人: A/Pr Gregor Devine
• 金额: $ 107.36万
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Project Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://researchdata.edu.au/release-sterile-males-control-technologies/1345438
• 关键词: Release; sterile; males; new; direction

With over 40% of humans at risk from mosquito-borne disease, new environmentally friendly mosquito control tools are required. We’ve developed a novel sterile male population suppression technology – using neither radiation nor genetic modification – to produce sterile adult male mosquitoes from both male and female larvae. We will show that exposing mosquito larvae to specific RNA molecules can produce fit sterile males adult mosquitoes that can crash mosquito populations in large cage trials

由于超过40%的人类面临蚊媒疾病的风险，因此需要新的环境友好型蚊子控制工具。我们开发了一种新的不育雄性种群抑制技术-既不使用辐射也不使用基因改造-从雄性和雌性幼虫中产生不育的成年雄性蚊子。我们将证明，将蚊子幼虫暴露于特定的RNA分子可以产生合适的不育雄性成年蚊子，这些蚊子可以在大型笼子试验中摧毁蚊子种群