Oral ingestion of transgenic RIDL Ae. aegypti larvae has no negative effect on two predator Toxorhynchites species.

Dengue is the most important mosquito-borne viral disease. No specific treatment or vaccine is currently available; traditional vector control methods can rarely achieve adequate control. Recently, the RIDL (Release of Insect carrying Dominant Lethality) approach has been developed, based on the ste...

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Main Authors: Oreenaiza Nordin, Wesley Donald, Wong Hong Ming, Teoh Guat Ney, Khairul Asuad Mohamed, Nor Azlina Abdul Halim, Peter Winskill, Azahari Abdul Hadi, Zulkamal Safi'in Muhammad, Renaud Lacroix, Sarah Scaife, Andrew Robert McKemey, Camilla Beech, Murad Shahnaz, Luke Alphey, Derric David Nimmo, Wasi Ahmed Nazni, Han Lim Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3604150?pdf=render