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RIDL; What Is It? How Does It Work? Does It Work? And What's In ...

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Background: SIT and mosquitoes<br />

>20 trials in 1970’s – 1980’s<br />

[Reviewed by Mark Benedict and Alan Robinson (2003) Trends<br />

Parasitol. 19:349]<br />

• Variable success<br />

• Some problems revealed:<br />

Immigration of pre-mated females<br />

Poor competitiveness of irradiated/chemosterilised males<br />

Breakdown and semi-sterility of strains using translocations<br />

or other chromosomal rearangments.

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